| These, in the day when heaven was falling, | |
| The hour when earth's foundations fled, | |
| Followed their mercenary calling, | |
| And took their wages, and are dead. | |
| Their shoulders held the sky suspended; | 5 |
| They stood, and earth's foundations stay; | |
| What God abandoned, these defended, | |
| And saved the sum of things for pay. |