Yet all these pleading just to live, not die!

Did I believe one whit less in belief,

Take truth for falsehood, wish the voice revoked

That told the truth to heaven for earth to hear?

No, this should be, and shall; but when and how?

At what expense to these who average

Your twenty years of life, my computists?

"Not bread alone," but bread before all else

For these: the bodily want serve first, said I;

If earth-space and the lifetime help not here,