Stay, Rhadamanthus! Pharisaic taste

Is no safe guide to Charity's true rule.

Beware, lest like King David, in his haste,

You trust the zeal experience should school

To thought more kindly and to care more cool.

What right? Suppose her sinner, even then

The sacred precinct hath far wider scope

Than any dwelling set apart of men.

This temple is the Lord's, from base to cope.

Here faltering Faith and half-extinguished Hope