Wherefore his picture evermore was hued
Over with colours, peradventure fine,
But mixed not for a Heav’n-conceived design.
A creed that like the sacred mountains stood
Sunlighted depth or moonlit amplitude,
Majestic, measureless, with trim tape-line
Did he attempt, and scorn’d, being undivine,
The excess divine, the tropic rain of God.
Faith’s flowers must die where heart-air is so chilly;
Fair must seem false when love’s so little kind,
Denying love when love is nobly new.
The virgin’s fingers fold a tarnish’d lily
For those who scorn virginity. The blind
Are proof against sweet proof that Heav’n is blue.
(Archbishop William Alexander)
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