Moreover, say that certain sin there seem,

The proper process of unsinning sin

Is to begin well-doing somehow else.

Pietro,—remember, with no sin at all

I' the substitution,—why, this gift of God

Flung in his lap from over Paradise

Steadied him in a moment, set him straight

On the good path he had been straying from.

Henceforward no more wilfulness and waste,

Cuppings, carousings,—these a sponge wiped out.