William Allingham
From Philosopedia
Allingham, William (1824—1889)
Allingham was an Irish poet and close friend of Froude, Tennyson, Rossetti, and others whose conversations with him on religion are recorded in his Diary (1907). All were skeptics, he shows.
Allingham professed to be an atheist, adding that “we cannot in the least comprehend or even think of Deity.” He also wrote, “I will have nothing to do with . . . any form of Christianity.”
At his secular funeral, a friend read his words,
- Body to purifying flame,
- Soul to the Great Deep whence it came,
- Leaving a song on earth below,
- An urn of ashes white as snow.”
