The Legends of the Craft.

The Legends of the Craft. [No. 56]

Whether out legends Facts or Fictions be,
Their Teaching is the same: and that man knows
Little of Ethics who too rashly vows
All Fiction must be Falsehood. Do not we
Find highest Truths in Parables? And He 5
Who taught in Palestine so long ago,
As none else taught, used them to strike a blow
At all Untruth. But we must have the Key
To unlock Symbolic Teaching, in the Mind,
Or Allegories ne’er can benefit 10
The sluggish brain of country clown or cit.
He who knows how to Search, will surely Find
Truth hid e’en in her Well; but they who boast
Sole love of Literal Facts, too often Err the most.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887