There may be more misfortune at the close,

And where will you be? God suffice me then!"

And presently—for there was a roadside-shrine—

"When I was taken first to my own church

Lorenzo in Lucina, being a girl,

And bid confess my faults, I interposed

'But teach me what fault to confess and know."

So, the priest said—'You should bethink yourself:

Each human being needs must have done wrong!'

Now, be you candid and no priest but friend—