Hope Is Not the Creature of Sensation

Music: The Harmonious Blacksmith. By G.F. Handel. Sequenced by Ken Whitcomb.

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Hope is not the creature of sensation. A miracle's the work of only days. Nor can faith be founded on conviction Unsustained by ritual and art. Knowledge of the senses is creation Kindled by a truth that sense betrays, As faith emerges whole from ancient fiction, Holding quiet commerce with the heart.