—Is this our mode?— From German heart came this vexed ululating? From German body, this self-lacerating? Is ours this priestly hand-dilation, This incense-fuming exaltation? Is ours this faltering, falling, shambling, This quite uncertain ding-dong-dangling? This sly nun-ogling, Ave-hour-bell ringing, This wholly false enraptured heaven-o’erspringing? —Is this our mode?— Think well!—ye still wait for admission— For what ye hear is Rome — Rome’s faith by intuition!
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