Not left in God’s contempt apart,

With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,

Tame in earth’s paddock as her prize.

Thank God, she still each method tries

To catch me, who may yet escape,

She knows, the fiend in angel’s shape!

Thank God, no paradise stands barred

To entry, and I find it hard

To be a Christian, as I said!

Still every now and then my head