Brown shadow else, mid shadows brown.

‘O God,’ he said, ‘it cannot be,

Thy Morning-star, with endless moan,

Should lift his fading orbs to thee,

And thou be happy on thy throne.

It were not kind, nay, Father, nay,

It were not just, O God, I say,

Pray for thy Lost One, Jesus, pray!

‘How can thy kingdom ever come,

While the fair angels howl below?