Anon and ever his philosophy claims pen.
Beware, all ye believers! In you lurks this germ;
Within yourselves lies latent vile deception’s sperm.60
The two and seventy sects are all within your hearts,[357]
And only wait a chance to play their fatal parts.
Whoever hath the bud of faith grown in his breast,
As aspen-leaf must tremble, lest it be supprest.
Thou laughest at the devil in thy foolish pride;
Thyself thou hast imagined sin’s stern deicide.
But when thy soul shall manifested be to all,