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Loved past man's utterance: yea, the same,
Perchance, and as his name thy name.

4.

Thou wast as very Christ—not he

Degraded into Deity,
And priest-polluted by such prayer
As poisons air,
Tongue-worship of the tongue that slays,
False faith and parricidal praise:
But the man crowned with suffering days.

5.

God only, being of all mankind

Most manlike, of most equal mind