And therefore poisons all the world with pest.

It was a trusty mirror of ourselves!

And he was bent to pang us into living

Were he compelled e’en Moses’ numskull book—

So unabashed his words—with force to tatter.

It was for that sole cause our river Jordan,

Whose clear wave laughed and leapt throughout our land,

Symbolled us not instead of a dull bog.

Alex.

He flung the mask so wholly from him?