Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Harold Monro . A beast without a home, a coward, a scourge : God never would have made you , had He not Made me as well to punish and to purge. He, by a ruling immemorial , Is Master of the judges of the land ; My pen inscribes the sentence , but in all He stands behind me, and directs my hand . Should I invent one truthless explanation , Or fail one sacred precedent to keep , I could no more kneel down in adoration I think I could not even eat or sleep . So, in the name of God , on your confession , Thief, I arrest you, that His wrath may fall Through me, upon you at the coming session . [Innocent enters . God is the law Innocent . Ecclesiastical ! Secular is as nothing in His sight. Outside the Church there is not any hope For any man of knowing wrong from right: In Heaven God is the Law , on earth -- the Pope, Moreover learn , O thou vainglorious man , That crimson fires in deepest Hell await All those unfaithful who refuse to scan Him in the mystery immaculate. High on a lofty rock one castle stands , Which , stormed and battered , shall not ever lurch , Impregnable to all the faithless bands : Founded on catholic truth - The Catholic Church , (Caustio enters , 141