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,—