Christ’s work here glorified humanity—

I must believe that souls, not when outside

The world but in the world, though not of it,

And in the body acting bodily,

The lives transfiguring our common lives

And common cares, the most resemble His.—

The one who seeks to glorify herself

In feigning burial to human cares,

Humiliates rather her humanity.

She hints—not so?—that truest womanhood