GOD speaks by silence. Voice-dividing man,
Who cannot triumph but he saith, Aha –
Who cannot suffer without Woe is me –
Who, ere obedience follow on the will,
Must say, Thou shalt – who, looking back, saith Then,
And forward, Then; and feebly nameth, Now,
His changing foothold ‘twixt eternities;
Whose love is pain until it finds a voice –
Whose seething anger bubbles in a curse –
Who summarizes truth in party-cries,
And bounds the universe with category, –
This word-dividing, speech-pre
(James Brunton Stephens)
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