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Women of the Gospels, The - Part 5

F ORGIVENESS may then yet be mine,
The sinless lips have said " Forgiven; "
Pardon is then a right Divine,
And love indeed the law of heaven.

" But can the sullied snow grow white?
What spell can seal the memory fast?
What has been ever must have been ,
The Almighty cannot change the past.

" His eyes, though piercing as the light,
In pity may refuse to see;
But what can make my memory white?
What veil can hide myself from me? "

Oh! raise thy downcast eyes to His,
And read the blessed secret there;
The pardoning love from guilt that frees,
By loving thee shall make thee fair.

Love's deepest depth of saving woe
Has yet to be to thee revealed;
Blood from that tender heart must flow,
And thus thy bitter streams be healed

Thy guilt and shame on Him must lie:
Then search the past thy guilt to see;
Instead, this sight shall meet thine eye, —
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