The Law is dead or cast into a trance,—

And by a law dough-baked, an Ordinance!

The Liturgy, whose doom was voted next,

Died as a comment upon him the text.

There's nothing lives; life is, since he is gone,

But a nocturnal lucubration.

Thus you have seen death's inventory read

30In the sum total,—Canterbury's dead;

A sight would make a Pagan to baptize

Himself a convert in his bleeding eyes;