A man may turn to Lucifer and feel
Inspired by beauty, or some splendour bright:
And yet so live his life within himself
That Lucifer can ne’er find entrance there;
But to that other Spirit man doth cry,
When he can fathom his own self aright:
‘The goal of love for earthly souls—’tis this
Not I, but Christ, doth live within me now.’
Benedictus (turning to Maria):
And when her soul shall to her spirit bow