Alexander Pope on God
1688–1744 England
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
Or ask of yonder argent fields above
Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove.
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray,
And on the sightless eyeball pour the day.
Thou Great First Cause, least understood.