The Atheist sure a fool must be
To risk a future prize
Because a soul he cannot see
With his material eyes.
He cannot see the cooling breeze
Or sound of deep-toned bell;
He cannot see the water freeze,
Nor view the fragrant smell.
No eye can see the sacred law
Which brings life into birth;
And yet how little do we know
Of all we have on earth.
We ne’er can view the human thought,
Nor see the human voice;
Nor how the human brain is fraught
With reason, will, and choice.
The moving Cause we cannot see
Which guides the heavenly spheres;
We only see the harmony
In seasons and in years.
We know we’ve sight within our eyes,
And blood within our veins
But who can see ideas rise
Within our hearts or brains?
I’ve felt a shock as quick as light,
That shock I never saw;
Then why should we depend on sight
And heavenly hopes forego?
We’ve joys, and pains, which human eyes
Can never once behold;
We’ve doubts, and fears, within that rise,
Of no material mould.
The magnet has a secret force
Which none could e’er find out;
It guides the sailor in his course,
And turns the pin about.
. . . . . .
I scorn whate’er some fools advance
Who say there’s no design
In what is made,-that all is chance,-
The cause is not divine.
Can nature, chance, or mother earth,
Produce the smallest fly,
Without a parent stock give birth?-
No, that I must deny.
. . . . . .
The scoffer, with his jaundiced eye,
Surveys the sacred page;
He deems the Bible one huge lie,
Brought forth in some dark age.
. . . . . .
And thus the poor deluded wight
Goes rambling to the tomb,
Without one ray of mental light
To cheer his dreary home.
(Joseph Hodgson)
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