On the place to bury strangers in,

The hideous Potter's Field.

But the priest bethought him: "'Milk that 's spilt'

—You know the adage! Watch and pray!

Saints tumble to earth with so slight a tilt!

It would build a new altar; that, we may!"

And the altar therewith was built.

Why I deliver this horrible verse?

As the text of a sermon, which now I preach:

Evil or good may be better or worse