To break God’s laws, and in like kind have fared.

The deeds have been done; and now, fast shut in,

The doers take the wages of their sin.

But time presses; hasten, wouldst thou fulfil

Duties charged by Heaven’s grace, thy own good-will.

Courage; for we have left behind the Pit

Of sin and torture, and are soon to quit

Even the melancholy Precincts, where

The dead still mourn the Past, the Future fear.

Already I see the walls Cyclopian, built