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Faith

How much thy Holy Name hath been misured,
Beginner of all good, all-mighty Faith!
Some men thy blesséd symbols have abused,
Making them badge or secret Shibboleth

For greed accepted, or for spite refused,
Or just endured for fear of pain or death.
To some, by fearful conscience self-accused,
Thou com’st a goblin self, a hideous wraith.

With such as these thou art an inward strife,
A shame, a misery, and a death in life,
A self-asserting, self-disputing lie;

A thing to unbelief so near allied,
That it would gladly be a suicide,
And only lives because it dare not die.