| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Infidelity | | By Minot Judson Savage (1841–1918) |
| | | WHO is the infidel, but he who fears | |
| To face the utmost truth, whate’er it be? | |
| Dreads God the light? and is his majesty | |
| A shadow that in sunshine disappears? | |
| Or leads he in the swift-ascending years | 5 |
| Into a light where men may plainer see? | |
| He trusts him best, to whom the mystery | |
| Hides nothing dangerous; who ever hears, | |
| With faith unshaken, his new uttered voice, | |
| And knows it cannot contradict the truth | 10 |
| It in the old time spoke. Whate’er it saith, | |
| He fears not then, but bids his heart rejoice, | |
| In old age trustful as he was in youth. | |
| This only, though called infidel, is faith. | | | | |
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