text:  Humble and mean that house of prayer-- Yet God hath shrined a wonder there:-- Mother and Child to whom of old The Three Kings knelt with gifts behold! By three times thirty steps the shrine The pilgrim gains--and faint and dim And dizzy with the height divine Strength on the sudden springs to him! "Yawns wide within that holy steep A mighty cavern dark and deep-- By blessed sunbeam never lit-- Rank foetid swamps engirdle it; And there by night and there by day Ever at watch the fiend-worm lay Holding the Hell of its abode Fast by the hallow'd House of God