Hath striven to cast his slough away.

Yea, and that long prayer is granted:

Yea, his soul is disenchanted.

O blest above the sons of men!

For thou, with more than Prophet’s ken,

Deep in the secrets of the tomb

Hast read thine own, thine endless doom;

Thou by the hand of the Most High

Art sealed for immortality.

So may I read thy story right,