The Philosophers But the children are the wise men, With the clearest heart and mind;If two and one are three, they say, Then truth is near to find;If this be now that once was not, If things must have a cause, Then very simple is the sum That God is in His laws.
The world's men that are fools enough, They will not speak that way, But with a cloud of muddled thought They hide the light of day;Yet laughing words and candid truth Abide by field and hall, Where the best of true philosophers Are the children, after all.
