Mr. Crowley and The Creeds
…! ” I have dealt with this contention at some length in the “ Sword of Song ” itself (Ascension Day, lines 216 to 247) : but here I will simply observe that a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clifford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W. S. Gilbert) position of the Free Kirk to-day, is a poem which had better be burnt, as the most sensible man of his time proposed to do with Homer, or at least left to the collector, as I believe is the case with the publications o…