Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
  That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
  Beneath our feet each deed of shame!

All common things, each day’s events,
  That with the hour begin and end,
Our pleasures and our...

Long pored Saint Austin o’er the sacred page,
  And doubt and darkness overspread his mind;
On God’s mysterious being thought the Sage,
  The Triple Person in one Godhead joined.
  The more he thought, the harder did he find
To solve the various doubts...

Poet: Anonymous