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By all the tender mercy God hath shown to human grief, When fate, or man’s perverseness, Denied and barr’d relief,— By the helpless woe which taught me To look to Him alone, From the vain appeals for justice And wild efforts of my own,— By thy light—thou unseen future, And thy tears—thou bitter past, I will hope—though all forsake me— In His Mercy to the last!
By all the tender mercy God hath shown to human grief, When fate, or man’s perverseness, Denied and barr’d relief,— By the helpless woe which taught me To look to Him alone, From the vain appeals for justice And wild efforts of my own,— By thy light—thou unseen future, And thy tears—thou bitter past, I will hope—though all forsake me— In His Mercy to the last!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Norton (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 384 · printed citation: Mrs. Norton · subject: MERCY
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