The very church of choice, as different

From other joy as prayer may be from sport.”

“And does not choice,” I ask’d, “feel often moved

To spurn a lesser for a greater good?

For greater good, too, may not Love on high

Unseat some idol of our ignorance?”—

L.

With this, I pictured for him brightest life;

And, like a blot on every scene, myself;

I claim’d my character was not the one