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To F who complained of his vagueness and lack of dogmatic statement	A
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Not I suppose since I deny	B
Appearance is reality	C
And doubt the substance of the earth	D
Does your remonstrance come to birth	D
Not that at once I both affirm	E
'Tis not the skin that makes the worm	E
And every tactile thing with mass	F
Must find its symbol in the grass	F
And with a cool conviction say	G
Even a critic's more than clay	G
And every dog outlives his day	G
This kind of vagueness suits your view	H
You would not carp at it for you	H
Did never stand with those who take	I
Their pleasures in a world opaque	I
For you a tree would never be	C
Lovely were it but a tree	C
And earthly splendours never splendid	J
If by transience unattended	K
Your eyes are on a farther shore	L
Than any of earth nor do adore	L
As godhead God's dead hieroglyph	M
Nor would you be perturbed if	M
Some prophet with a voice of thunder	N
And avalanche arm should blast and founder	N
The logical pillars that maintain	O
This visible world which loads the brain	O
Loads the brain and withers the heart	P
And holds man from his God apart	P
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But still with you remains the craving	Q
For some more solid substance having	Q
Surface to touch colour to see	C
And form compact in symmetry	C
You are not satisfied with these	R
Vague throbbings nameless ecstasies	R
Nor can your spirit find delight	S
In an amorphic great white light	S
Not with such sickles can you reap	T
If a dense earth you cannot keep	T
You want a dense heaven as substitute	U
With trees of plump celestial fruit	U
Red apples golden pomegranates	R
And a river flowing by tall gates	R
Of topaz and of chrysolite	U
And walls of twenty cubits height	U
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Frank you cry out against the age	V
Nor you nor I can disengage	V
Ourselves from that in which we live	W
Nor seize on things God does not give	X
Thirsty as you perhaps I long	Y
For courtyards of eternal song	Y
Even as yours my feet would stray	G
In a city where 'tis always day	G
And a green spontaneous leafy garden	Z
With God in the middle for a warden	Z
But though I hope with strengthening faith	A2
To taste when I have traversed death	B2
The unimaginable sweetness	R
Of certitude of such concreteness	R
How should I draw the hue and scope	C2
Of substances I only hope	C2
Or blaze upon a paper screen	D2
The evidence of things not seen	D2
This art of ours but grows and stirs	R
Experience when it registers	R
And you know well as I know well	E2
This autumn of time in which we dwell	E2
Is not an age of revelations	R
Solid as once but intimations	R
That touch us with warm misty fingers	R
Leaving a nameless sense that lingers	R
That sight is blind and Time's a snare	F2
And earth less solid than the air	F2
And deep below all seeming things	R
There sits a steady king of kings	R
A radiant ageless permanence	R
A quenchless fount of virtue whence	R
We draw our life a sense that makes	R
A staunch conviction nothing shakes	R
Of our own immortality	U
And though being man with certain glee	U
I eat and drink though I suffer pain	O
And love and hate and love again	G2
Well or in mode contemptible	H2
Thus shackled by the body's spell	E2
I see through pupils of the beast	U
Though it be faint and blurred with mist	U
A Star that travels in the East	U
I see what I can not what I will	I2
In things that move things that are still	I2
Thin motion even cloudier rest	U
I see the symbols God hath drest	U
The moveless trees the trees that wave	J2
The clouds that heavenly highways have	K2
Horses that run rocks that are fixt	U
Streams that have rest and motion mixt	U
The main with its abiding flux	R
The wind that up my chimney sucks	R
A mounting waterfall of flame	L2
Sticks straws dust beetles and that same	L2
Old blazing sun the Psalmist saw	R
A testifier to the law	R
Divinely to the heart they speak	M2
Saying how they are but weak	M2
Wan will o' the wisps on the crystal sea	U
But stays that sea still dark to me	U
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Did I now glibly insolent	U
Chart the ulterior firmament	U
Would you not know my words were lies	R
Where not my testimonial eyes	R
Mortal or spiritual lodge	N2
Mere uncorroborated fudge	O2
Praise me though praise I do not want	U
Rather that I have cast much cant	U
That what I see and feel I write	U
Read what I can in this dim light	U
Granted to me in nether night	U
And though I am vague and shrink to guess	R
God's everlasting purposes	R
And never save in perplext dream	P2
Have caught the least clear shapen gleam	P2
Of the great kingdom and the throne	Q2
In the world that lies behind our own	Q2
I have not lacked my certainties	R
I have not haggard moaned the skies	R
Nor waged unnecessary strife	R2
Nor scorned nor overvalued life	R2
And though you say my attitude	U
Is questioning concede my mood	U
Does never bring to tongue or pen	G2
Accents of gloomy modern men	G2
Who wail or hail the death of God	U
And weigh and measure man the clod	U
Or say they draw reluctant breath	B2
And musically mourn that Death	B2
Is a queen omnipotent of woe	S2
And Life her lean cicisbeo	C
Abject and pale whom vampire like	T2
She playeth with ere she shall strike	T2
And pose sad riddles to the Sphinx	R
With raven quills in purple inks	R
Then send the boy to fetch more drinks	R

John Collings Squire, Sir

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