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    The Heptalogia
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    The Heptalogia

    By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Heptalogia - Algernon Charles Swinburne

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      Title: The Heptalogia

      Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Release Date: April 19, 2006 [EBook #18210]

      Language: English

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      THE HEPTALOGIA

      By Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Taken from

      THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS

      OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE,

      VOL. V

      SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      THE HEPTALOGIA

      By

      Algernon Charles Swinburne

      1917

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      First printed (Chatto), 1904

      Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12

      (Heinemann), 1917

      London: William Heinemann, 1917

      THE HEPTALOGIA

      SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS

      THE HEPTALOGIA

      OR

      THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE

      A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS

      THE HIGHER PANTHEISM

      IN A NUTSHELL

      One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is:

      Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly this.

      What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and under:

      If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder.

      Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt:

      We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

      Why, and whither, and how? for barley and rye are not clover:

      Neither are straight lines curves: yet over is under and over.

      Two and two may be four: but four and four are not eight:

      Fate and God may be twain: but God is the same thing as fate.

      Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man what he feels:

      God, once caught in the fact, shows you a fair pair of heels.

      Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which:

      The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.

      More is the whole than a part: but half is more than the whole:

      Clearly, the soul is the body: but is not the body the soul?

      One and two are not one: but one and nothing is two:

      Truth can hardly be false, if falsehood cannot be true.

      Once the mastodon was: pterodactyls were common as cocks:

      Then the mammoth was God: now is He a prize ox.

      Parallels all things are: yet many of these are askew:

      You are certainly I: but certainly I am not you.

      Springs the rock from the plain, shoots the stream from the rock:

      Cocks exist for the hen: but hens exist for the cock.

      God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see:

      Fiddle, we

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