'A Triplet of Quatrains.' <br />To deftly do what many dimly think; <br />To fund a feeling for the world to borrow; <br />To turn a tear to printer's ink; <br />To make a sonnet of a sorrow. <br /> <br /> <br />'Ego-theism': <br />This trouble seems to be <br />Chief in theology: <br />Each thinks the hymn should be, -- <br />Nearer, my God, to Thee. <br /> <br /> <br />'The Mystery of Evil': <br />The rake upon a wanton wastes the wiles <br />Which dazzle innocence. <br />The nettle guards itself; the lily smiles <br />Unheedful of defence.<br /><br />Edmund Vance Cooke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetry-203/
