Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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GUILT,
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GUILT,
What is it? and what is it like?
'Tis the soul's sense of ill itself has done,That conscious fear unwilling calls its own:
Tis the heart's knowledge of its sad estate,
[illeg.] trembling dread of some yet sadder fate:
[illeg.] Justice' hand, that shakes the mighty rod
[illeg.] redd'ning vengeance, and its angry god!
Now for its like, if likeness can be found
[illeg.] this sphere, or that beyond can bound:
[illeg.] death, 'tis darkness, 'tis the type of hell,
That sin created, and where Seraphs fell;
[illeg.] all the soul on this side time need know,
[illeg.] curse existence, or foretell its woe!
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