Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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TO THE OVERGODLY.
Who sanctioned thee to sit in Judgment onThy Fellows, or to draw a Line which is
Far stricter than God himself makes? is his
First Feeling Vengeance? yet if anyone,
Methinks, should feel that, it were he alone
Who is all Purity! but even this
Makes him of so long Suffering: yea! 't is
His Love that fills his Godhead out! let none
Then hold his Virtue as a Reason for
Severity—for is not God far more
Removed from thee, than thou from the worst Whore
Or Sinner? yea! and if thine Eye but saw
The Heart as his does, thou wouldst think before
Condemning, and of thy Faults, not the Law!
And why is God so merciful? because
He knows the Object what it is and was:
Then do thou too so, and like God's thine Eye
Will see godlike, and therefore lovingly!
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