"Hate dims your clear intellect.

If the bird-catcher really--what was your comparison--if the bird-catcher really made me his whistler, deceived and misled me, he might learn from you, ay, from you! Encouraged by you, I relied upon your love and faith.

From you I hoped all things--and where is this love?
As you spared me nothing that could cause me pain, I will, pitiless to myself, confess the whole truth to you.

It was not alone because the God of my fathers called me, but because His summons reached me through you and my father that I came.

You yearn for a land in the far uncertain distance, which the Lord has promised you; but I opened to the people the door of a new and sure home.