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The Proud
Only the saint knows sin how rich it is. The saint sins breathing, knows that to smell a flower ts carnal and that bread sustains illusion. The saint is sensual and knows more senses to sin with than the sinner does. To hear a fugue offends, since it delights. He cannot flee enjoyment who when he mortifies the flesh finds that the flesh feels joy in cease of suffering. The saint is punished who knows humility to be God's door yet cannot stoop to it, for lower though he may crawl than fossil and flint, he carries down and down unbreakable pride that would refuse all joy and break all gifts and pit perfected self against a faulty world. Then death forgives the saint.