'Twixt Truth and Error, there is this difference
known,—
Error is fruitful, Truth is only one.
Truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Truth, like a single point, escapes the sight,
And claims attention to perceive it right;
But what resembles Truth is soon descried,
Spreads like a surface, and expanded wide.
For Truth is Truth, to the end of reckoning.
Eternal unity behind her shines;
She bids all sounds in earth and heaven be still.
What is Truth?—A staff rejected.
