QUERY1851
"A Verse may find Him."
By R. W. E. (Hull)
In the first stanza of Herbert's poem entitled the *Church Porch*, in the *Temple*, the following lines occur:— "A verse may find him, whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." Which contain, evidently, the same idea as the one enunciated in the subsequent ones quoted by Wordsworth (I believe) as a motto prefixed to his ecclesiastical sonnets, without an author assigned:— "A verse may catch a wandering soul that flies More powerful tracts: and by a blest surprise Convert delight into a sacrifice." Query, Who was the author of them?
Topics: Victorian Poetry, Literature