THERE IS ONE SIN: TO CALL A GREEN LEAF GREY, WHEREAT THE SUN IN HEAVEN SHUDDERETH. THERE IS ONE BLASPHEMY: FOR DEATH ΤΟ PRAY, FOR GOD ALONE KNOWETH THE PRAISE OF DEATH. THERE IS ONE CREED: 'NEATH NO WORLD-TER A TESTIMONY SAID of laughter: it is vain. Of mirth I said: what profits it? Therefore I found a book, and writ Therein how ease and also pain, How health and sickness, every one Is vanity beneath the sun. Man walks in a vain shadow; he The things that were shall be again, But turn back to their secret source; Our treasures moth and rust corrupt, Or thieves break through and steal, or they Make themselves wings and fly away. One man made merry as he supped, Nor guessed how when that night grew dim His soul would be required of him. V : |