On the bodies and souls of living men?
And think ye that building shall endure
Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?"
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Then Christ sought out an artisan—
A low-browed, stunted, haggard man,
And a motherless girl, whose fingers thin
Pushed from her faintly Want and Sin.
These set He in the midst of them,
And as they drew back their garment-hem