Religion

XXX

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837–1909

From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)

Religion

Woven out of faith and hope and love too great
To bear the bonds of life and death and fate:
Woven out of love and hope and faith too dear
To take the print of doubt and change and fear:
And interwoven with lines of wrath and hate
Blood-red with soils of many a sanguine year.

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