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QUESTIONINGS.
Waging war on God Almighty, by destroying feeble man,
With the heathen for a rear-guard, and the learned for the van ? —
"I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most ?
That the strongest wander farthest, and more hopelessly are lost ?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,
And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain ? —
" I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that whichever way we go
Walls of darkness must surround us, things we would but cannot know ?
