Urged by ambition, she, with subtlest skill,
Changes her mien. The enthusiast, as a dupe,
Shall soar; and, as a hypocrite, can stoop,
And turn the instruments of good to ill,
Moulding the credulous people to her will.
Such Dunstan! From its Benedictine coop
Issues the master mind, at whose fell swoop
The chaste affections tremble to fulfil
Their purposes. Behold, pre-signified,
The night of spiritual sway! His thoughts, his dreams,
Do in the supernatural world abide;
So vaunt a throng of followers, filled with pride,
In shows of virtue, pushed to its extremes,
And sorceries, of talent misapplied.
Poems
INFLUENCE ABUSED
From the December 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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