By Jesu’s curing halt, lame, blind, deaf, mad, were shamed.

How many poets, orators, great men of note,

By word of the Illiterate One[104] were shown to dote.

For love of our Almighty God, the Lord of all,

Who would not die, a stock, a block, we needs must call.

Dead heart of stone if He but touch with love’s live coal,

A magnet straight becomes, no longer quits the pole.[105]

Plume not thyself as one endowed with cunning guile;

The meek more surely draw rich gifts from Heaven’s smile.220

How many treasure-hiders, treasure-seekers, here,