(Through all the busy and benefic part,—

Bridge-building, or rock-riving, or good clean

Transport of church and congregation both

From this to that place with no harm at all,)

The Devil, that old stager, at his trick

Of general utility, who leads

Downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

Therefore, no sooner does our candidate

For saintship spotlessly emerge soul-cleansed

From First Communion to mount guard at post,