Did Not Jesus Say, Resist

What A Joy Is There In A Good Book, Writ By Some Great Master Of Thought, Who Breaks Into Beauty As In Summer The Meadow Into Grass And Dandelions And Violets, With Geraniums And Manifold Sweetness.

Did Not Jesus Say, Resist Not Evil — With Evil? Is Not War The Worst Form Of That Evil.

No Virtue Fades Out Of Mankind. Not Over-hopeful By Inborn Temperament, Cautious By Long Experience, I Yet Never Despair Of Human Virtue.

Every Rose Is An Autograph From The Hand Of The Almighty God On This World About Us. He Has Inscribed His Thoughts In These Marvelous Hieroglyphics Which Sense And Science Have Been These Many Thousand Years Seeking To Understand.

I Ask No Risen Dust To Teach Me Immortality; I Am Conscious Of Eternal Life.