For the sweetest voice can never impart

The song that trembles within the heart.

And the brain and the hand can never quite do

The thing that the soul has fondly in view.

And hence are the tears and the burdens of pain,

For the shining goals are never to gain,

But enough that a God can hear and see

The song and the deed that were meant to be.

(1658)

Interception—See [Interruption].