Yea! God hath helped my strength too far,

By bandit-caverned wood and scar,

To give it pause now, or to bar

My all-avenging way!

This hope still gives my body strength—

To kiss thy mouth and eyes at length

Where all thy kin can see:

Then, 'mid thy towers of crime and gloom,

Sin-haunted as the Halls of Doom,

To strike thee dead in that wild room