“Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed / offerings to idols,…
“Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed / offerings to idols, swore oaths / that the killer of souls might come to their aid / and save the people. That was their way, / their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts / they remembered hell. The Almighty Judge / of good deeds and bad, the Lord God, / Head of the Heavens and High King of the Word, / was unknown to them.”