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 ,
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