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Grace.

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Ill-wrought life we look at as we die!     Mistaken, selfish, meagre, and unmeet;     So graven on the hearts that cruelly     We have deprived of many an hour sweet:     O ill-wrought life we look at as we die!     O day of God we look at as we die!     Grace, like a river flowing toward our feet;     Wide pardon blowing with the breezes by;     Love telling us bright tales of the Complete; -     While listening, hoping, thanking, lo, we die!

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