If one should feel the instinct of the lamb

While skipping to welcome the butcher’s knife

That waits to slaughter it, would he be wise

To follow instinct?”

“Why not?” answer’d he:

“The lamb was made that it might die for man:

It follows instinct and dies easily.

The soul was made that it might live for God:

It follows instinct and lives happily.

The cases differ thus. May there not be