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"Yes, write it in the rock! " Saint Bernard said, / "Grave it on brass with adamantine pen!
'Tis God himself becomes apparent, when / God's wisdom and God's goodness are display'd, / "For God of these his attributes is made. " --
Well spake the impetuous Saint, and bore of men / The suffrage captive; now, not one in ten / Recalls the obscure opposer he outweigh'd.
God's wisdom and God's goodness! -- Ay, but fools / Mis-define these till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and goodness, they are God! -- what schools / Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore?
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules; / 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.