The clumsy mimic idols of our shrines

Stumble and break to pieces—oh, here it is—

Quapropter effigiem Dei formamque quærere,

Imbecillitatis humanæ reor’—

‘All visible effigies of God

But types of human imbecility.’—

But what has Antioch to say to that,

Who at such cost of marble and of gold

Has built the very temple into which

She drags her tutelary Zeus to-day?—