A Man!—a right true man, however,

Whose work was worthy a man's endeavor:

Work, that gave warrant almost sufficient

To his disciples, for rather believing

He was just omnipotent and omniscient,

As it gives to us, for as frankly receiving

His word, their tradition,—which, though it meant

Something entirely different

From all that those who only heard it,

In their simplicity thought and averred it,