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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 14. HOPE, by                    
First Line: It is the helpless and the fallen soul
Last Line: Nor chance has had its kindnesses to know.
Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism


It is the helpless and the fallen soul
That holds within its depths nobility,
And we should with its sin and griefs condole
And learn each good and noble quality;
For no man falls so low upon this earth
But what some great and lasting good he owns,
And when the Christ in him has found its birth
The evil sins and thoughts it soon dethrones.

The greatest men of all the times were those
Who sinned repeatedly and often fell,
And yet when Christ Himself in them arose
They saved their souls from out the depths of Hell.
For often sin and shame are born where love
Has found no opportunity to show
Its God-like attributes drawn from above,
Nor chance has had its kindnesses to know.





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