And yet I fear lest men who read these lines,
Should judge of them as if they wholly spake
The love I bear Thee and thy holy sake;
Saying: "He doth the high name wrong who twines
Earth's highest aim with Him, and thus combines
Jesus and Art." But I my refuge make
In what the Word said: "Man his life shall take
From every word:" in Art God first designs,--
He spoke the word. And let me humbly speak
My faith, that Art is nothing to the act,
Lowliest, that to the Truth bears witness meek,
Renownless, even unknown, but yet a fact:
The glory of thy childhood and thy youth,
Was not that Thou didst show, but didst the Truth.
Sonnet. About Jesus. Xvi
George Macdonald
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Poem topics: childhood, faith, fear, god, life, earth, meek, wrong, unknown, judge, sake, holy, speak, high, jesus, youth, love, truth, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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