O preachers, you have frightened the world so much with the fire of hell that you yourselves have become the very embodiment of fear.

Here, the poet takes a sharp yet thoughtful dig at moralizing preachers who use terror rather than love to guide people. In their relentless obsession with threatening humanity with the fires of hell, they have stripped faith of all warmth and compassion. The ultimate irony is that by constantly peddling dread, the preacher's own persona has hardened into the very embodiment of fear, far removed from divine grace.