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HOW very hard it is to be	A
A Christian Hard for you and me	A
Not the mere task of making real	B
That duty up to its ideal	B
Effecting thus complete and whole	C
A purpose or the human soul	C
For that is always hard to do	D
But hard I mean for me and you	D
To realise it more or less	E
With even the moderate success	E
Which commonly repays our strife	F
To carry out the aims of life	F
This aim is greater you may say	G
And so more arduous every way	G
But the importance of the fruits	H
Still proves to man in all pursuits	H
Proportional encouragement	I
Then what if it be God s intent	J
That labour to this one result	K
Shall seem unduly difficult	K
Ah that s a question in the dark	L
And the sole thing that I remark	L
Upon the difficulty this	M
We do not see it where it is	N
At the beginning of the race	O
As we proceed it shifts its place	O
And where we looked for palms to fall	P
We find the tug s to come that s all	P
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II	Q
At first you say The whole or chief	R
Of difficulties is Belief	R
Could I believe once thoroughly	A
The rest were simple What Am I	Q
An idiot do you think A beast	S
Prove to me only that the least	S
Command of God is God s indeed	T
And what injunction shall I need	T
To pay obedience Death so nigh	Q
When time must end eternity	A
Begin and cannot I compute	U
Weigh loss and gain together suit	U
My actions to the balance drawn	V
And give my body to be sawn	V
Asunder hacked in pieces tied	W
To horses stoned burned crucified	W
Like any martyr of the list	X
How gladly if I made acquist	X
Through the brief minutes fierce annoy	V
Of God s eternity of joy	V
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III	Q
And certainly you name the point	X
Whereon all turns for could you joint	X
This flexile finite life once tight	X
Into the fixed and infinite	X
You safe inside would spurn what s out	X
With carelessness enough no doubt	X
Would spurn mere life but where time brings	Y
To their next stage your reasonings	Y
Your eyes late wide begin to wink	Z
Nor see the path so well I think	Z
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IV	Q
You say Faith may be one agrees	Y
A touchstone for God s purposes	Y
Even as ourselves conceive of them	A2
Could He acquit us or condemn	A2
For holding what no hand can loose	Y
Rejecting when we can t but choose	Y
As well award the victor s wreath	B2
To whosoever should take breath	C2
Duly each minute while he lived	X
Grant Heaven because a man contrived	X
To see the sunlight every day	X
He walked forth on the public way	X
You must mix some uncertainty	X
With faith if you would have faith be	X
Why what but faith do we abhor	D2
And idolize each other for	D2
Faith in our evil or our good	X
Which is or is not understood	X
Aright by those we love or those	Y
We hate thence called our friends or foes	Y
Your mistress saw your spirit s grace	Y
When turning from the ugly face	Y
I found belief in it too hard	X
And both of us have our reward	X
Yet here a doubt peeps well for us	Y
Weak beings to go using thus	Y
A touchstone for our little ends	Y
And try with faith the foes and friends	Y
But God bethink you I would fain	V
Conceive of the Creator s reign	V
As based upon exacter laws	Y
Than creatures build by with applause	Y
In all God s acts as Plato cries	Y
He doth He should geometrise	Y
Whence I desiderate	X
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V	X
I see	X
You would grow smoothly as a tree	X
Soar heavenward straightly up like fire	E2
God bless you there s your world entire	E2
Needing no faith if you think fit	X
Go there walk up and down in it	X
The whole creation travails groans	Y
Contrive your music from its moans	Y
Without or let or hindrance friend	X
That s an old story and its end	X
As old you come back be sincere	F2
With every question you put here	G2
Here where there once was and is still	H2
We think a living oracle	I2
Whose answers you stood carping at	X
This time flung back unanswered flat	X
Besides perhaps as many more	D2
As those that drove you out before	D2
Now added where was little need	X
Questions impossible indeed	X
To us who sate still all and each	J2
Persuaded that our earth had speech	J2
Of God s writ down no matter if	Q
In cursive type or hieroglyph	Q
Which one fact frees us from the yoke	K2
Of guessing why He never spoke	K2
You come back in no better plight	X
Than when you left us am I right	X
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VI	Q
So the old process I conclude	X
Goes on the reasoning s pursued	X
Further You own Tis well averred	X
A scientific faith s absurd	X
Frustrates the very end twas meant	X
To serve so I would rest content	X
With a mere probability	X
But probable the chance must lie	Q
Clear on one side lie all in rough	Q
So long as there is just enough	Q
To pin my faith to though it hap	L2
Only at points from gap to gap	L2
One hangs up a huge curtain so	Y
Grandly nor seeks to have it go	Y
Foldless and flat along the wall	P
What care I that some interval	I2
Of life less plainly might depend	X
On God I d hang there to the end	X
And thus I should not find it hard	X
To be a Christian and debarred	X
From trailing on the earth till furled	X
Away by death Renounce the world	X
Were that a mighty hardship Plan	V
A pleasant life and straight some man	V
Beside you with if he thought fit	X
Abundant means to compass it	X
Shall turn deliberate aside	X
To try and live as if you tried	X
You clearly might yet most despise	Y
One friend of mine wears out his eyes	Y
Slighting the stupid joys of sense	Y
In patient hope that ten years hence	Y
Somewhat completer he may see	X
His list of lepidopter	D2
While just the other who most laughs	Y
At him above all epitaphs	Y
Aspires to have his tomb describe	M2
Himself as Sole among the tribe	M2
Of snuffbox fanciers who possessed	X
A Grignon with the Regent s crest	X
So that subduing as you want	X
Whatever stands predominant	X
Among my earthly appetites	Y
For tastes and smells and sounds and sights	Y
I shall be doing that alone	V
To gain a palm branch and a throne	V
Which fifty people undertake	N2
To do and gladly for the sake	N2
Of giving a Semitic guess	Y
Or playing pawns at blindfold chess	Y
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VII	Q
Good and the next thing is look round	X
For evidence enough Tis found	X
No doubt as is your sort of mind	X
So is your sort of search you ll find	X
What you desire and that s to be	X
A Christian what says History	X
How comforting a point it were	D2
To find some mummy scrap declare	D2
There lived a Moses Better still	H2
Prove Jonah s whale translatable	H2
Into some quicksand of the seas	Y
Isle cavern rock or what you please	Y
That Faith might clap her wings and crow	D2
From such an eminence Or no	D2
The Human Heart s best you prefer	D2
Making that prove the minister	D2
To truth you probe its wants and needs	Y
And hopes and fears then try what creeds	Y
Meet these most aptly resolute	X
That Faith plucks such substantial fruit	X
Wherever these two correspond	X
She little needs to look beyond	X
To puzzle out what Orpheus was	Y
Or Dionysius Zagrias	Y
You ll find sufficient as I say	Y
To satisfy you either way	Y
You wanted to believe your pains	Y
Are crowned you do and what remains	Y
Renounce the world Ah were it done	V
By merely cutting one by one	V
Your limbs off with your wise head last	X
How easy were it how soon past	X
If once in the believing mood	X
Such is man s usual gratitude	X
Such thanks to God do we return	V
For not exacting that we spurn	V
A single gift of life forego	D2
One real gain only taste them so	D2
With gravity and temperance	Y
That those mild virtues may enhance	Y
Such pleasures rather than abstract	X
Last spice of which will be the fact	X
Of love discerned in every gift	X
While when the scene of life shall shift	X
And the gay heart be taught to	X