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"Faith" is a fine invention "Faith" is a fine invention For Gentlemen who see! But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency! Poet:	Faith — is the Pierless Bridge Faith — is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not — Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side —... Poet:	He strained my faith — He strained my faith — Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust — Did it then — yield? Hurled my belief — But — did he shatter — it? Racked — with suspense — Not a nerve failed!... Poet:	My Faith is larger than the Hills — My Faith is larger than the Hills — So when the Hills decay — My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way — 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane — And then — upon the Hill — And then... Poet:
Peace is a fiction of our Faith — Peace is a fiction of our Faith — The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight. Poet:	The Child's faith is new — The Child's faith is new — Whole — like His Principle — Wide — like the Sunrise On fresh Eyes — Never had a Doubt — Laughs — at a Scruple — Believes all sham But Paradise — ... Poet:	The Ruler's Faith DEATH cometh to the chamber of the sick: The ruler's daughter, like the peasant's child, Turns pale as marble. Hark! that hollow moan, Which none may soothe, and then the last faint breath Subsiding with a shudder. ... Poet:	To lose one's faith — surpass To lose one's faith — surpass The loss of an Estate — Because Estates can be Replenished — faith cannot — Inherited with Life — Belief — but once — can be — Annihilate a single clause — ... Poet:
To mend each tattered Faith To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate — 'Tis threaded in the Air — And though it do not wear As if it never Tore 'Tis very comfortable indeed ... Poet: