The Church is near them—in a common seat
The pious men with grateful spirit meet;
Thus from the world, which they no more admire,
They all in silent gratitude retire. 90
P. And is it so? Have all, with grateful mind,
The world relinquish’d, and its ways resign’d?
Look they not back with lingering love and slow,
And fain would once again the oft-tried follies know?
F. Too surely some! We must not think that all,
Call’d to be hermits, would obey the call;