There was the purest Platonism at bottom
Of all his feelings—only he forgot 'em.
LV.
Just now there was no peril of temptation;
He loved the infant orphan he had saved,
As patriots (now and then) may love a nation;
His pride, too, felt that she was not enslaved
Owing to him;—as also her salvation
Through his means and the Church's might be paved.
But one thing's odd, which here must be inserted,