One hangs up a huge curtain so,

Grandly, nor seeks to have it go

Foldless and flat along the wall.

What care I if some interval

Of life less plainly may depend

On God? I 'd hang there to the end;

And thus I should not find it hard

To be a Christian and debarred

From trailing on the earth, till furled

Away by death.—Renounce the world!