The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's all-complete,
As by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to His feet."B
B: Saul, III.
But David finds in himself one faculty so supreme in worth that he keeps it in abeyance—
"Lest, insisting to claim and parade in it, wot ye, I worst
E'en the Giver in one gift.—Behold, I could love if I durst!
But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o'ertake
God's own speed in the one way of love: I abstain for love's sake."A
A: Saul, III.