Is girt by customs past, (which could alone
Prejudge thought’s present range) fit prejudice;
And this is in behind your Church’s forms.
“You say, perhaps, ‘the Spirit formed the forms
To fit the life’?—they fitted life that was;
But life, if life, will grow; the life of love
Has not yet fill’d the scope around, above,
Of heavens that for it wait. What form’d the forms
Can still be forming them.—If forms exist
Wherein no Spirit works, no present life,—