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WHY? by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY

First Line: WITH WHAT INTENT
Last Line: NOR HEALETH ANY OF HIS SINS.
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
With what intent
Was this grim sorrow sent? --
What meaning lies in such dread sacrifice?
Of a surety it is meant
To teach us this, --
That man, however fallen, still may rise
If he repent,
Through sacrifice
To sacrament.
But -- till he thereunto attain,
All sacrifice is made in vain.
Forced sacrifice no virtue wins,
Nor healeth any of his sins.



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