Classic Poem

134

But all too late, grief's out of date,
when life is at an end.
The glorious King thus answering,
all to his voice attend:
God gracious is, quoth he, like his
no mercy can be found;
His Equity and Clemency
to sinners do abound.

135

As may appear by those that here
are plac'd at my right hand;
Whose stripes I bore, and clear'd the score,
that they might quitted stand
For surely none, but God alone,
whose Grace transcends mens thought,
For such as those that were his foes
like wonders would have wrought.