Was dank with dungeon1 wetness; my spent frame
Oerlaid with marish agues: everywhere
Tortured by leaping pangs2 of frost and flame
So hideous3 was I that even Lazarus there
In noisome4 rags arrayed and leprous shame
Beside me set had seemed full sweet and fair
And looked on me with loathing5.
But one came
Who laid a cloak on me and brought me in
Tenderly to an hostel6 quiet and clean;
Used me with healing hands for all my needs.
The mortal stain of my reputed sin
My state despised and my defild weeds
He hath put by as though they had not been.