| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. Zeal without Knowledge | | By Edmund Peel |
| | | TO save the soul, to purchase Paradise, | |
| By voluntary woe and wilful pain, | |
| Tried in all ages, still is tried in vain. | |
| The wheels of Juggernaut crush out the cries | |
| Of hideous unavailing sacrifice, | 5 |
| As when to Moloch reeked the bloody plain! | |
| As when the fire-devoted shrieked amain! | |
| As when lean agony, in lowly guise, | |
| Groaned on the lofty pillar!—Better pray | |
| For light, than hold a taper unapproved,— | 10 |
| Than give a wrong direction to the blind! | |
| Elijah laughed to scorn the frantic bray | |
| And the red gashes, which to frenzy moved | |
| Zeal without knowledge, plaguing human kind. | | | | |
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