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Oh, loving and forgiving— Ye angel words of earth Years were not worth the living If ye too had not birth! Oh, loving and forbearing— How sweet your mission here; The grief that ye are sharing Hath blessings in its tear. Oh, stern and unforgiving— Ye evil words of life, That mock the means of living With never-ending strife. Oh, harsh and unrepenting How would ye meet the grave, If Heaven, as unrelenting, Forbore not, nor forgave? Oh, loving and forgiving— Sweet sisters of the soul, In whose celestial living The passions find control! Still breathe your influence o’er us Whene’er by passion crost, And, angel-like, restore us The paradise we lost.
Oh, loving and forgiving— Ye angel words of earth Years were not worth the living If ye too had not birth! Oh, loving and forbearing— How sweet your mission here; The grief that ye are sharing Hath blessings in its tear. Oh, stern and unforgiving— Ye evil words of life, That mock the means of living With never-ending strife. Oh, harsh and unrepenting How would ye meet the grave, If Heaven, as unrelenting, Forbore not, nor forgave? Oh, loving and forgiving— Sweet sisters of the soul, In whose celestial living The passions find control! Still breathe your influence o’er us Whene’er by passion crost, And, angel-like, restore us The paradise we lost.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Charles Swain (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 369 · printed citation: Charles Swain · subject: LOVE
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