Men Of Most Renowned Virtue Have Sometimes

Reason Also Is Choice.

Hide Me From Day's Garish Eye.

Knowledge Forbidden? Suspicious, Reasonless. Why Should Their Lord Envy Them That? Can It Be A Sin To Know? Can It Be Death?

Truth Is Compared In Scripture To A Streaming Fountain; If Her Waters Flow Not In Perpetual Progression, They Sicken Into A Muddy Pool Of Conformity And Tradition.

And To The Faithful: Death, The Gate Of Life.