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1202.

[A sin there is which far exceeds]

Herod . . . added yet this above all, &c. —iii. 19, 20.

A sin there is which far exceeds
The tyrant's most atrocious deeds;
Ambition, pride, and lust
They cannot with his guilt compare
Who hates the Saviour's messenger,
And persecutes the just.
Shedding at length a martyr's blood,
He quenches the last spark of good,
And can no longer feel,

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He makes his sin and misery full,
Murders his own immortal soul,
And shuts it up—in hell.