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Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought
Of being scourged,
Were there but hope that this defiling sin
Which mars my life, and taints my heart within
Could so be purged,
And I might live, in virtue of the rod,
The life in God.

— Walter Chalmers Smith

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Now, pity is the touch of God
In human hearts.

O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be
Mine own self too,
And to the nature He bestowed on me
Be frankly true.
The olive fruits not as the clustering vine;
Nor may we get
Scent of the rose or lily from woodbine,
Or violet.

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