It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,  

The dark threw patches down upon me also;  

The best I had done seem’d to me blank and suspicious;

My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?

          would not people laugh at me?  

It is not you alone who know what it is to be evil;  

I am he who knew what it was to be evil;  

I too knitted the old knot of contrariety,  

Blabb’d, blush’d, resented, lied, stole, grudg’d,

Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,  

Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant;  

The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,  

The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,  

Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting.