Power in the air for evil as for good,

Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the stars

Fought in their courses for a fate to be.

Thus stand the wife and priest, a spectacle,

I doubt not, to unseen assemblage there.

No lamp will mark that window for a shrine,

No tablet signalize the terrace, teach

New generations which succeed the old,

The pavement of the street is holy ground:

No bard describe in verse how Christ prevailed