Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-10
sCrEycE-FALsE AND TRUE.

One of the ablest of American statesmen
and lawyers-a man of pure life and ster-
ling Christian principles and character
man, In fact, who possesses several Glad
stonian qualities-sends to the editor of the
REPUBLIC mot for publication, but with
permission to publish, if we desire) poem
which is printed below, and the authorship
of which would be recognized by those ia
miliar with the writer's style-with the pat
ness, yet rugged strength OF the phrases
his immense intellectual reach and grasp
the beauty and grandeur of the scenes he
depicts-and the genuineness and breadth
of his faitb-were it published on the other
side of the world. without signature or hint
as to its origin. The design of the poem is
to recognize the magnificent achievements
of real science, as shown in electricity, as
tronomy, navigation, ETC., and illustrated
in the use of the telescope, the telephone,
the spectroscope and the like, but it is also
designed to show the amazing presumption
and crime of that pseudo science which
|, ESSAYS to muster God out OF his own uni
verse" The poem first appeared in the
Presbyterian Observer, published at Balti-
more and Washington by Rev. DR.. Hamlin,
formerly of Cincinnati, and Is as follows:
With feeble glass, whose utmost sweeps
Scarce reach thy verge, Infinite deeps.
Men deemed they've scan'd the amazing
whole
,ir Natn End ha
n insect, freighted on mote,
Where millions in sunbeam float.
There, perched upon its tiny clod.
Assumes to try and banish-God
To pierce Esrth's depths. or scale its sum
nit:
Or, wing'd with keel and fav' ring breeze,
Essays to cleave its hidden seas.
Or. armed with prism. lens and jars.
Resolves the gases of the stars;
Then boasts he's told to human ears
The last dread secrets OF the spheres.
For speech he tunes some mystic wire,
And steals from storms their tongues Of fire.
For whispering arch. the sky's paviliOns;
For audience. halls the mighty millions.
Or Jokes the lightning to his car.
And hies from earth to sun and star,
Joins the wild comet, in its chase,
And curbs his steed to keep In pace.
And onward through supernsl heights.
Where seraphs stay their ventrous flights.
And veil, behind retreating wings,
In presence of the King of kings.
At lights insuferable source,
At awful fount OF primal force.
At the dread spring of Beings cause
Whose anvils forge the Law for laws;
And whence, upon the trackless space.
God maps for worlds their tracks and place;
Then from his hand filings. one By one,
0bed mt star and bridled sun
There pigmy men, presumptuous tread.
Rush In" whence angels trembling fled.
Assume tn Almighty's blazing seat,
And spurn the God beneath their feet.
All. puny thing. on vent'rous wings.
Thy utmost fight, midst hidden things.
Ne'er reached the foothills Of the plain
Whose heights, beyond, unpierced remain.
The treasure-house. the fields untrod.
Unrifi'd mysteries Of God.
Your keel ne'er reached the border waves.
Your line ne'er fathomed oceans caves.
Though shaved by Natures primal force.
Which launched the worlds and marked thei
course,
You no more scan the viewless cause,
Whence fow the deeps Of lswless laws
Than you can touch the springs that start
The awful clock beat of the heart
You garb In light and feed on air,