The Heptalogia by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS
THE HEPTALOGIA OR THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is: Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly this. What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and under: If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder. Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt: We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without? Why, and whither, and how? for barley and rye are not clover: Neither are straight lines curves: yet over is under and over. Two and two may be four: but four and four are not eight: |
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