To- By Percy Bysshe Shelley One word is too often profaned For me to profan it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what man call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not,- The desire of the moth for star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?《警察和赞美诗》--一无所有、露宿街头的流浪汉索比为了应对即将来临的严冬,千方百计地想犯点法,以求达到他的企图:去布莱克维尔监狱度过寒冷的冬天。令人忍俊不禁的是,往往事与愿违,他屡次故意犯法,但警察都不抓他,而当他忽然良心发现,准备洗心革面重新做人之时,警察却不由分说地将他逮捕了。终于达到了他去布莱克维尔监狱度过严冬的梦想。