To fire shall water never quarter give, or breath.
’Tis water puts the fire out; and the reason’s plain;
The fire has mission to destroy the water’s strain.
And then, the fire’s the heat of passion’s baneful lusts.
And lust, the root of frailty, sin, misdeeds, mistrusts.200
Material, outer fire, ’s by water soon put out;
The fire of lust may carry man to hell, no doubt.
No water can avail to quench the flames of lust;
For lust is hell-born. Torments end not; last they must.
Religion’s light, alone, can quench lust’s fiercest flame,—