XXXVI.
“Hearken for once; just as the conscience pure
Is here God’s presence to my wayward will—
Not to constrain it, but to kindly lure
It on by duty’s path, from every ill;
So to the State the Christian Church, secure
From human thrall, should be a conscience, still
Ne’er to constrain, save by that heavenly light
Which bares the Wrong, and maketh plain the Right.”
XXXVII.