God’s temples of worship, so fair;
We saw there, enlisted in fight,
The wicked who cursed God with dare.
** * * *
O then they all sang as before,
And the prophets they came rushing down;
And skipping, they came to that shore
Where saints shall forever be crowned!
To find the “concealed sense” (concealed nonsense!) of the verses that follow, the first and third, second and fourth lines, are read consecutively: