BUSH BALLADS AND RHYMES 



And bliss an intangible bubble 

 That cheats an unsatisfied soul, 



And the whole 

 Of the rest an illegible scroll." 



Scene VII "TWO EXHORTATIONS" 



A Shooting-bocz in the West of Ireland. A Bedchamber. 

 Laurence Raby and Melchior. Night. 



Melchior : 



Surely, in the great beginning God made all 



things good, and still 

 That soul-sickness men call sinning enter'd 



not without His will. 

 Nay, our wisest have asserted that, as shade 



enhances light, 

 Evil is but good perverted, wrong is but the 



foil of right. 

 Banish sickness, then you banish joy for health 



to all that live ; 

 Slay all sin, all good must vanish, good being 



but comparative. 

 Sophistry, you say — yet listen : look you sky- 

 ward, there 'tis known 

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