From the Cape, demon-haunted, a Spirit[93] arose,

It was clad in a mantle of gray,

And it stalked to Colenso, and said, “I depose

A priest who can propagate volumes like those!”

But a stern apparition cried “Nay!”

In a voice full of sweetness, but cold as a stone,

“I forbid you to touch him!” it said.

“You are phantoms alike—if you want flesh and bone,

Go pray Three Estates; for a Monarch alone