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 ::::If any God should say
 * "I will restore
 * The world her yesterday
 * Whole as before

My Judgment blasted it"—who would not lift Heart, eye, and hand in passion o'er the gift?


 * If any God should will
 * To wipe from mind
 * The memory of this ill
 * Which is mankind

In soul and substance now—who would not bless Even to tears His loving-tenderness?


 * If any God should give
 * Us leave to fly
 * These present deaths we live,
 * And safely die

In those lost lives we lived ere we were born— What man but would not laugh the excuse to scorn?