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 Loved past man's utterance: yea, the same, Perchance, and as his name thy name.

Thou wast as very Christ—not he Degraded into Deity, And priest-polluted by such prayer As poisons air, Tongue-worship of the tongue that slays, False faith and parricidal praise: But the man crowned with suffering days.

God only, being of all mankind Most manlike, of most equal mind