The Jarring Sects
	62 And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas---the Grape! 63 The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute: previous              next
Vedder's note: Above is shown the Heaven-given wine (taken literally or typically), below the sectarianism which loses sight of the spirit in fierce disputes over the letter.