That Fire is undecayed;
Its well-spring was that Upper Room
Where Mary sat and prayed.”
Of course Mary cannot be tolerated in such company. Her name is accordingly stricken from the roll and “the disciples” substituted for it, so that the last line reads:
“Where the disciples sat and prayed.”
It is too much to look to this man for respect for the Mother of God; but at least he might have some respect for Father Faber, and at the very least for the laws of rhythm.
It is useless to multiply instances of this kind. They run through the book. A few other gross liberties taken with the text cannot pass unnoticed.
In “The Wages of Sin” the second verse of the author reads:
“We gave away all things for him,
And in truth it was much that was given—