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28 They answer: "The blood and crime
 * Belong to a sect and place!"

What are these things to Heaven—
 * Races or places of men?

The world through one Chhrist was forgiven
 * Nor question of races then.

The wrong of to-day shall be rued
 * In a thousand coming years;

The debt must be paid in blood,
 * The interest, in tears.

Shall none stand up for right
 * Whom the evil passes by?

But God has the globe in sight,
 * And hearkens the weak ones' cry.

Wherever a principle dies—
 * Nay, principles never die!

But wherever a ruler lies.
 * And a people share the lie;