But God in flaming speech hath said:
“Be faithful through the hour of strife:
Haggling wins not the crown of life!”
Anguish’d repentance scales not heaven,
The martyr’s doom you must fulfil.
That you lack’d strength may be forgiven,—
But never that you wanted will.
Agnes.
Yes, it shall be as you have said;
O lift me to those heights you tread;