And mitred seats are full, yet David's bench is bare.[221]
Your answer is, they were not dispossest;
They need but rub their mettle on the Test
To prove their ore;—'twere well if gold alone
Were touched and tried on your discerning stone;
But that unfaithful test unfound will pass
The dross of Atheists, and sectarian brass;
As if the experiment were made to hold
For base production, and reject the gold.
Thus men ungodded may to places rise,