24. Zeal and Love
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AND would'st thou reach, rash scholar mine, |
| Love's high unruffled state? |
| Awake! thy easy dreams resign, |
| First learn thee how to hate:— |
Hatred of sin, and Zeal, and Fear, |
| Lead up the Holy Hill; |
| Track them, till Charity appear |
| A self-denial still. |
Dim is the philosophic flame. |
| By thoughts severe unfed: |
| Book-lore ne'er served, when trial came, |
| Nor gifts, when faith was dead. |
Oxford.
November 20, 1832. |