Read, sweet, how others strove:

Read, sweet, how others strove,   
Till we are stouter;   
What they renounced,   
Till we are less afraid;   
How many times they bore                5
The faithful witness,   
Till we are helped,   
As if a kingdom cared!   
 
Read then of faith   
That shone above the fagot;            10
Clear strains of hymn   
The river could not drown;   
Brave names of men   
And celestial women,   
Passed out of record                        15
Into renown!