第49章

CHRIST was of virgin birth, and, being slain, The creedists say, He rose from death again.

Oh, futile age-long talk of death and birth!--His life, that is the one thing wonder-worth;

Not how He came, but how He lived on earth.

For if gods stoop, and with quaint jugglery Mock nature's laws, how shall that profit thee?--The nobler lesson is that mortals can Grow godlike through this baffled front of man!