Was that somebody I?
If God, with perfect heart, loved you, my child,
And to Jesus likened thee—
Why so favored first, now sad and wild?
Who failed to love? Ah me!
Was that somebody I?
One said he loved the Christ and all of his;
He read the Word and prayed;
Believed that one the cruel creed, “What is,
Is best?” And so you strayed—