And gain man refuge from intolerant man.

V.

Williams the task of goodness now essayed,

To win the wanderer to a worship new;

The utter darkness that his soul arrayed,

Concealed her workings from our Founder’s view,

Save when some question, rare and strange, betrayed

His dream-bewildered glimpses of the true.—

Long was the task; and Williams back began,

At earth’s creation and the fall of man.