Almost, we cry, “Give back Gethsemane!”
THE PROXY SAINT.
Each for himself must do his Master’s work,
Or at his peril leave it all undone;
Witness the fate of one who sought to shirk
The Sanctuary service yet would shun
The penalty. A man of earthly aims
(So runs the apologue,) whose pious spouse
Would oft remind him of the Church’s claims,
Still answered thus, “Go, thou, and pay our vows