A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

You don’t believe – I won’t attempt to make ye:

You are asleep – I won’t attempt to wake ye.

Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams

Of Reason you may drink of Life’s clear streams.

Reason and Newton, they are quite two things;

For so the swallow and the sparrow sings.

Reason says `Miracle’: Newton says `Doubt.’

Aye! that’s the way to make all Nature out.

`Doubt, doubt, and don’t believe without

experiment’:

That is the very thing that Jesus meant,

When He said `Only believe! believe and try!

Try, try, and never mind the reason why!’

From A Poem A Day: United Kingdom, Ireland & Continental Islands