The poor mere instrument of things ordain’d,

Doing or suffering, impotent alike

To will or act, ... perpetually bemock’d

With semblance of volition, yet in all

Blind worker of the ways of destiny!

That thought intolerable, which in the hour

Of woe indignant conscience had repell’d,

As little might it find reception now,

When the regenerate spirit self-approved

Beheld its sacrifice complete. With faith