True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.