...death will plague his enemies and feast his friends. The materialist believes, with Caliban, that " He doth his worst in this our life, Giving just respite...Saving last pain for worst, — with which, an end." The grave irony of this poem so bespatters the theologian's God with his own mud that we dread the...

...As grubs grow butterflies : else, here are we, And there is He, and nowhere help at all. 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different,...Sees, himself, Yonder two flies, with purple films and pink, Bask on the pompion-bell above : kills both. 'Sees two black painful beetles roll their ball...

...which shows Caliban to consider himself as a theologian more enlightened than Sycorax : — " Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different,...best way to escape his ire Is not to seem too happy." There is another poem in Mr. Browning's volume which deserves special study. He has seen the fitness...

...all. •« 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. Hgl dam held different, that after death 7 j He both plagued enemies and feasted friends : Idly...Sees, himself, Yonder two flies, with purple films and pink, Bask on the ponipion-bell above : kills both. 'Sees two black painful beetles roll their ball...

...As grubs grow butterflies: else, here are we, And there is He, and nowhere help at all. 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different,...respite lest we die through pain, Saving last pain for worst,—with which, an end. Meanwhile, the best way to escape His ire Is, not to seem too happy. Sees,...

...As grubs grow butterflies : else, here are we, And there is He, and nowhere help at all. 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different, that after death 7 j He both plagued enemies and feasted friends : Idly ! He dotk his worst in this our life, Giving...

...As grubs grow butterflies : else, here are we, And there is He, and nowhere help at all. 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different, that after death 7 j He both plagued enemies and feasted friends : Idly ! He doth his worst in this our life, Giving...

...with for a time — He, and the evil and the good He sends. One thing comforts Caliban : 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different,...friends : Idly ! He doth His worst in this our life, Saving last pain for worst, — with which, an end. Meanwhile, the best way to escape His ire Is, not...

...with for a time — He, and the evil and the good He sends. One thing comforts Caliban : 'Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. His dam held different, that after death He bothplagued enemies and feasted friends : Idly ! He doth His worst in this our life, Saving last pain...

...threaten it. Envious spite, then, or mere whim being His " rules," the question is, how to please Him ? " The best way to escape His ire is not to seem too happy." Caliban's dam had given him some notion of immortality ; but he discards the idea, preferring to hold,...