Is faith your subject, and you judge it right

On theme so dark to cast a ray of light,

Be it that faith the orthodox maintain,

Found in the rubric, what the creeds explain;

Fail not to show us on this ancient faith

(And quote the passage) what some martyr saith:

Dwell not one moment on a faith that shocks

The minds of men sincere and orthodox;

That gloomy faith, that robs the wounded mind

Of all the comfort it was wont to find