 «Poor leper who is a man, 
 Poor leper who is alive, 
 Under his being's ban, 
 Whose torture's chain unearned 
 No pity comes to riv
 «A Hand of Might created
 The newt, the toad, the viper, 
 But gave them not its worst; 
 Kept them from loneliness, 
 Gave them their kindred's blis
         But that hand made the leper 
 And it made the leper leper: 
 And that Hand Almighty is
         Of all things the most curs