Or implement, a passive thing employed

As a brute mean, without acknowledgment

Of common right or interest in the end;

Used or abused, as selfishness may prompt.

Say, what can follow for a rational soul

Perverted thus, but weakness in all good,

And strength in evil? Hence an after-call

For chastisement, and custody, and bonds,

And oft-times Death, avenger of the past,

And the sole guardian in whose hands we dare