Virtue

What use

The cries of virtue

Of those who have never known vice?

How to trust those

Who say they shall guard us from harm

Who have never been to the farm

Or been the crying lamb

Or the one who does her harm

How can those who have never gone wrong

Really be strong

How can we take their advice

If they've never broken it themselves

And paid the price

How can those who say they never fall

Be trusted with anything at all?

Povey 2016