And recollect that you have not been so.
How comforting it then will be to know
That though you are an unremitting debtor
As unelect as any Irish setter,
The way you live was seen through long ago
By One who understood your every woe
And by good mercy made sin a dead letter.
This kind theology of total grace
Appeals to many, and is justified
In the eternal act of divine mercy;
But if in us that thinking holds no place;
If we believe the Gospels to have lied
It is as true as Homer's tale of Circe.
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