To lose all Comfort in this World and live 470

Without one Joy that Life or Love can give;

To meet no more the Forms he loved, no more

The playful Smiles of Fondness to explore;

But to bid all, and Hope with all, farewell—

What to such Evil can a Soul compell?

He told, how then he went from place to place

In fact a Beggar, more than Beggary base;

How, grieved at length and humbled in the Dust, }

He then began the Sacred Word to trust; }