This, if I find the tongue and keep the mind—

"Do Thou wipe out the being of me, and smear

This soul from off Thy white of things, I blot!

I am one huge and sheer mistake,—whose fault?

Not mine at least, who did not make myself!"

Some one declares my wife excused me so!

Perhaps she knew what argument to use.

Grind your teeth, Cardinal, Abate, writhe!

What else am I to cry out in my rage,

Unable to repent one particle