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 protest of the great African Father Tertullian, Matthew Arnold founds one of his most touching poems:

"He saves the sheep—the goats He doth not save: So spake the fierce Tertullian.                       But she sighed: The infant Church, of love she felt the tide Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave, And then she smil'd, and in the Catacombs, With eye suffused, but heart inspired true, She her Good Shepherd's hasty image drew, And on His shoulder not a lamb but kid."