I came to Australia.

Unwittingly, without a chance of saving myself, I sank and drifted till I found myself a mere tramp.

For years I have been a tattered, unclean, despised outcast.

Yesterday I heard you preach; I was outside under a window too despicable a creature to enter among you trim flock.

Your sermon reminded me of what I was, showed me to myself, made the future horribly real to me.