Where 's Falsehood? Sun-smitten, to nothingness hurled!"

More humbly—so, friends, did my fault find redemption.

I sinned, soul-entoiled by the tether of sense:

My captor reigned master: I plead no exemption,

From Satan's award to his servant: defence

From the fiery and final assault would be—whence?

By making—as man might—to truth restitution!

Truth is God: trample lies and lies' father, God's foe!

Fix fact fast: truths change by an hour's revolution:

What deed's very doer, unaided, can show