With something deeper than blind make-believe,

Thy will be done on earth; and yet, and yet,

The law wherein that will might be discerned,

The law wherein that unity of heaven

And earth might yet be found (could he but trust

The truth, could he believe that his own God

Lived in the living truth), he waved aside.

These others had not found it, but they kept

One faith that he had lost. Though it should slay them,

They trusted in the truth. They could not see