He that with a heart of iron;

Where he journeyed, heard the lion

Roar against him—undismayed:

He, the mightiest of the land,

By the harlotry of Sense,

Blind and fettered, came to be

A jester at a jubilee,

A proverb for his impotence!

And though his strength came back anew

When he bowed himself in prayer,