Love thy Father, and no more His doings shall be strange.

Thou shalt not fret At any counsel, then, that He will send,-- No, nor rebel, albeit He have with thee Great reservations.

Know, to Be is more Than to have acted; yea, or after rest And patience, to have risen and been wroth, Broken the sequence of an ordered earth, And troubled nations." Then the dragon sighed.
"Poor fanatic," quoth he, "thou speakest well.
Would I were like thee, for thy faith is strong, Albeit thy senses wander.

Yea, good sooth, My masters, let us not despise, but learn Fresh loyalty from this poor loyal soul.
Let us go forth--( myself will also go To head you)--and do sacrifice; for that, We know, is pleasing to the mighty God: But as for building many arks of wood, O majesties! when He shall counsel you HIMSELF, then build.

What say you, shall it be An hundred oxen,--fat, well liking, white?
An hundred?
why, a thousand were not much To such as you." Then Noah lift up his arms To heaven, and cried, "Thou aged shape of sin, The Lord rebuke thee.".