Show me thy fruit, the latest act of thine!

For in the last is summed the first and all,—

What thy life last put heart and soul into,

There shall I taste thy product." I must plead

This condemnation of a man to-day.

Not so! Expect nor question nor reply

At what we figure as God's judgment-bar!

None of this vile way by the barren words

Which, more than any deed, characterize

Man as made subject to a curse: no speech—