Subsidy + 

If thou wouldst live the Truth in very deed, + 

Thou hast thy joy, but thou hast more of pain. + 

Others will live in peace, and thou be fain + 

To bargain with despair, and in thy need + 

To make thy meal upon the scantiest weed. + 

These palaces, for thee they stand in vain; + 

Thine is a ruinous hut, and oft the rain + 

Shall drench thee in the midnight; yea, the speed + 

Of earth outstrip thee, pilgrim, while thy feet + 

Move slowly up the heights. Yet will there come + 

Through the time-rents about thy moving cell, + 

Shot from the Truth’s own bow, and flaming sweet, + 

An arrow for despair, and oft the hum + 

Of far-off populous realms where spirits dwell. + 