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INTERCESSION FOR TRANSGRESSORS.

[“While all our hearts and every song]

“While all our hearts and every song,
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
Lord, why was I a guest?”

While we stand in wonder the poet gives answer.

“'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly forced us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sins.”