Do not for this give room to discontent;

Nor let the time thou owest to God be spent

In idly dreaming how thou mightest be,

In what concerns thy spiritual life, more free

From outward hindrance or impediment.

For presently this hindrance thou shalt find

That without which all goodness were a task

So slight, that virtue never could grow strong:

And wouldst thou do one duty to His mind,

The Imposer’s—over-burdened thou shalt ask,