The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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“Father of angels and of men!
Thou, whose omniscient heedful ken
Takes in the ample bounds of space,
Wherever smiles the human face,
Or seraphs sing, or angels dwell,
Or demons that in torment yell,—
Turn here in mercy from above
One glance of justice and of love;
Of love to those who look to thee,
And justice on their enemy;
And view a deed that stamps disgrace
On thy beloved human race.
Oh God! can such a deed beseem
Creatures thou diedst to redeem?
Thou, whose omniscient heedful ken
Takes in the ample bounds of space,
Wherever smiles the human face,
Or seraphs sing, or angels dwell,
Or demons that in torment yell,—
Turn here in mercy from above
One glance of justice and of love;
Of love to those who look to thee,
And justice on their enemy;
And view a deed that stamps disgrace
On thy beloved human race.
Oh God! can such a deed beseem
Creatures thou diedst to redeem?
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