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When fear or sordid motives are imputed As causes why revenge hath been forborne, Contempt will follow, from the natural feelings Of every breast, or savage or instructed. But when the valiant and the gen'rous pardon, Ev'n instantly as lightning rends the trunk Of the strong Nahagaha*, pride of the wood, A kindred glow of admiration passes Through every manly bosom, proving surely, That men are brethren, children of one sire, The Lord of heaven and earth.

Perplex me not with vain and lofty words, Which to the stunn'd ear of an injured man Are like the fitful sounds of a swoln torrent, Noble, but void of all distinctive meaning.

Their meaning is distinct as well as noble, Teaching to froward man the will of God.

And who taught thee to know this will of God

Our sacred Scripture.