A thousand limbs may smart for thee,
A thousand skins may quiver;
But not for thee my blood shall be,
For ever and for ever.
A still closer imitation of the versification of the original is contained in The Shotover Papers, published in Oxford in 1874.
Rise up, cold reverend, to a see,
Confound the unbeliever!
Yet ne'er 'neath thee my seat will be
For ever and for ever.
Preach, softly preach, in lawn and be