But knew not what his supplications were.
IV.
Yet earnestly the pious man besought,
That Heaven would deign to shed the Gospel light
On the kind pagan’s soul, as yet untaught
Save in the dreams of her primordial night;
And much he prayed, that to the truth when brought,—
Cleansed of his sins in garments pure and white,—
He might subdue the fierceness of his clan,