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1048.

[Ah! why should ye be stricken more?]

Why should ye be stricken any more? &c. —i. 5.

Ah! why should ye be stricken more?
Seems our God to give us o'er,
As past His reach of grace,
When mercy's kind intent is cross'd,
And all His chastisements are lost
On such an harden'd race.