Still, it should be our very best.

I thought it best that thou, the spirit,

Be worshipped in spirit and in truth,

And in beauty, as even we require it—

Not in the forms burlesque, uncouth,

I left but now, as scarcely fitted

For thee: I knew not what I pitied.

But, all I felt there, right or wrong,

What is it to thee, who curest sinning?

Am I not weak as thou art strong?