XVII

Lay not reproach at the drunkard’s door

Oh Fanatic, thou that art pure of soul;

Not thine on the page of life to enrol

The faults of others! Or less or more

I have swerved from my path—keep thou to thine own!

For every man when he reaches the goal

Shall reap the harvest his hands have sown.

Leave me the hope of a former grace—

Till the curtain is lifted none can tell