There is the burden that must yet be gone,
And then the pilgrim may go singing on.”
William to this would seriously incline,
And to their comforts would his heart resign; 590
It soothed, it raised him—he began to feel
Th’ enlivening warmth of methodistic zeal;
He learn’d to know the brethren by their looks—
He sought their meetings, he perused their books;
But yet was not within the pale and yoke,
And as a novice of experience spoke;