An Altar built unto the God Unknown,
My ignorant devotions must by guess
10This blind return of gratitude address,
Till you vouchsafe to show me where and how
I may to this revealed Goddess bow.
The Acquittance.] This group of poems is so obviously a group that Hannah's principles of selection in rejecting the present piece and admitting the others may seem unreasonably 'undulating and diverse'. I suppose he thought it rather profane for a bishop even in futuro, and perhaps rather ambiguous in other ways. But though King became a bishop there is no chance of my becoming an archdeacon, and I think the piece rather pretty.
The Forfeiture.
My Dearest, To let you or the world know
What debt of service I do truly owe