Sunday, March 18, 2007

Half truth

Beware for fiends in triumph laugh
O'er him who learns the truth by half!
Beware; for God will not endure
For men to make their hope more pure
Than His good promise, or require
Another than the five-stringed lyre
Which He has vowed again o the hands
Devout of him who understands
To tune it justly here!

- C. Patmore, "The Victories of Love", quoted in C. S. Lewis' Miracles (HarperCollins, 2002) p. 233

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