That never entered in thy mind to seek with zeal.
Nonentity obedient is to His command.
Of demon, and of Solomon, He rules the hand.
A demon can contrive “the trays of fishpond size.”[403]
He dares not make refusal these to organise.185
Contemplate now thyself in agony of fear;
And know, nonentity, too, quakes His wrath to hear.
Thou stretchest forth thy hand to seize preferment’s place;
From fear of thee, some soul itself must quick efface.
All else but love of God, the Truest and the Best,