I have seen cause to hold my judgment cheap?

Gott. Plague on thy judgments! Judgments ready-made

Are counterparts of garments ready-made,

That fit some well, some ill, some not at all.

I know a maiden, scarce eighteen years old,

Fair as the apple-green of early dawn,

Pure as the summer sun of southern heaven;

A psalm incarnate—an embodied prayer,

Not of the earth, yet dwelling thereupon;

Nor yet of heaven—although her mission be