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The
Soul's Quest and Other Poems
by
Frederick George Scott
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CATHOLICISM
“AND
other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring, and they shall hear My
voice; and there shall be one fold, under one
Shepherd.”—JOHN x. 16.
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HAST
thou not seen the tints unfold,
From earth, sky, sea, and
setting sun,
When all the glare of day
was done,
And melt in one long stream of gold?
So down the dim-lit glades of time,
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Age
after age, things divers blend,
Each working for the same
great end,
And in its working each sublime.
Was it in vain that Buddha taught,
Or that Mohammed lived
and died?
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Have
they not, working side by side
In differing climes, God's purpose wrought?
O Christian sage, who lov’st thy creeds!
Think not the ropes that
bind thee fast,
Like storm-tossed sailor,
to the mast,
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answer yet each brother’s needs.
And rail not thou at those half-known,
Who, groping thro’
a darker night,
Have found perhaps a dimmer
light
Than that thou sternly call’st thine own.
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Wouldst thou have spent, like them, thy youth,
Thy manhood, and thy weak
old age,
In one long search thro’
nature’s page,
An unassisted search, for truth?
Oh, dream not the Almighty’s powers
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Must
ever work in one known way;
Nor think those planets
have no day
Whose suns are other suns than ours.
1882.
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