So too do snipes and snails! and so do souls
That yet shall rule in heaven ten towns and one.
Souls differ, Grace; and John from James, as well
As both from Judas.—Judas lingers too.”
“So many,” sigh’d she, “sell their Christ, and think
Souls rich, that but receive suggestions rich
From art or——”
Had regard for Edith, now,
Made me, at last, a champion of art?—
“However or wherever plied,” I said,