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At the Judgment-bar stood spirits three: / A thief, a fool and a man of degree, / To whom spake the Judge in his Majesty.
To the shivering thief: "Thy sins are forgiven, / For that to repent thou hast sometime striven; / There be other penitent thieves in Heaven."
To the fool: "Poor fool, thou art free from sin; / To My light thou, too, mayest enter in, / Where Life and Thought shall for thee begin."
To the mirror of others, smug and neat, / With the thoughts and sayings of others replete, / This Judgment rolled from the Judgment-seat:
"Remain thou thyself, a worm to crawl. / Thou, doubly damned, canst not lower fall / Than ne'er to have thought for thyself at all. "