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Another creed! We're all so pleased! / A gentle, tentative new creed. We're eased / Of all those things we could not quite believe, / But would not give the lie to. Now perceive / How charmingly this suits us! Science even / Has naught against our modern views of Heaven; / And yet the most emotional of women / May find this creed a warm, deep sea to swim in.
Here's something now so loose and large of fit / That all the churches may come under it, / And we may see upon the earth once more / A church united,-as we had before! / Before so much of precious blood was poured / That each in his own way might serve the Lord! / All wide divergence in sweet union sunk, / Like branches growing up into a trunk!
And in our intellectual delight / In this sweet formula that sets us right; / And controversial exercises gay / With those who still prefer a differing way; / And our glad effort to make known this wonder / And get all others to unite thereunder,- / We, joying in this newest, best of creeds, / Continue still to do our usual deeds!