And holy to the holiness within?”
She said, “Waves fall on many an unclean shore,
Yet the salt seas are holy as before.
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“Our nature is no purer for the saint
That worships, nor from him that uses ill
Our beauty, can we suffer any taint.
As from the first we were, so are we still:
With incorruptibles the mortal will
Corrupts itself, and clouded eyes will make