Marveling he stands on the cathedral's br steep ascent, close to the rose window, br as though frightened at the apotheosis br which grew and all at once br br set him down over these and these. br And straight he stands and glad of his endurance, br simply determined; as the husbandman br who began and who knew not how br br from the garden of Eden finished-full br to find a way out into br the new earth. God was hard to persuade; br br and threatened him, instead of acceding, br ever and again, that he would die. br Yet man persisted: she will bring forth.