Friar Pacificus

It is growing dark! Yet one line more,

And then my work for today is o'er.

I come again to the name of the Lord!

Ere I that awful name record,

That is spoken so lightly among men,

Let me pause awhile, and wash my pen;

Pure from blemish and blot must it be

When it writes that word of mystery!

Thus have I labored on and on,