| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | “Old things need not be therefore true” | | By Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | | “OLD things need not be therefore true,” | |
| O brother men, nor yet the new; | |
| Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, | |
| And yet consider it again. | |
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| The souls of now two thousand years | 5 |
| Have laid up here their toils and fears, | |
| And all the earnings of their pain,— | |
| Ah, yet consider it again! | |
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| We! what do we see? each a space | |
| Of some few yards before his face; | 10 |
| Does that the whole wide plan explain? | |
| Ah, yet consider it again! | | | | |
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