No evil is therein - no wrinkle, spot,

Stain, blame, or blemish: - I affirm there’s not.

“All this you know - now mark what once befell,

With grief I bore it, and with shame I tell:

I was entrapp’d - yes, so it came to pass,

’Mid heathen rebels, a tumultuous class;

Each to his country bore a hellish mind,

Each like his neighbour was of cursed kind;

The land that nursed them, they blasphemed; the laws,

Their sovereign’s glory, and their country’s cause: