Note 29 — VII.
Reading edition
Keble, in one of his poems, represents a mother seeing her sportive son "enacting holy rites," and thus describes her emotions:
"She sees in heart an empty throne, And falling, falling far away, Him whom the Lord hath placed thereon: She hears the dread Proclaimer say, 'Cast ye the lot, in trembling cast, The traitor to his place hath past,— Strive ye with prayer and fast to guide The dangerous glory where it shall abide.'"