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The Gates of Paradise
Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice,Such are the Gates of Paradise.Against the Accuser’s chief desireWho walkd among the Stones of FireJehovah’s Finger Wrote the Law,They Wept, then rose in Zeal & AweAnd the Dead Corpse from Sinai’s heatBuried beneath his Mercy Seat.O Christians, Christians, tell me WhyYou rear it on your Altars high.
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To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World
Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce,And dost not know the Garment from the Man.Every Harlot was a Virgin once,Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.
Tho’ thou art Worship’d by the Names DivineOf Jesus & Jehovah, thou art stillThe Son of Morn in weary Night’s decline,The lost Traveller’s Dream under the Hill.
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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