The Prophet + 

Speak, Prophet of the Lord! We may not start + 

To find thee with us in thine ancient dress, + 

Haggard and pale from some bleak wilderness, + 

Empty of all save God and thy loud heart, + 

Nor with like rugged message quick to dart + 

Into the hideous fiction mean and base; + 

But yet, O prophet man, we need not less + 

But more of earnest, though it is thy part + 

To deal in other words, if thou wouldst smite + 

The living Mammon, seated, not as then + 

In bestial quiescence grimly dight, + 

But robed as priest, and honoured of good men + 

Yet thrice as much an idol-god as when + 

He stared at his own feet from morn to night. + 