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The Gleaner

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Methought I came unto a world-wide plain     Where souls stood thick as grain at harvest-tide,     And many reapers, full of pious pride,     With rapid scythe-sweeps mowed them down amain;     And zealous binders bound them up like grain     In sheaves: the reapers at each onward stride     Trod many souls down. These the binders eyed     With careless looks or glances of disdain.     But, following slow, a patient Gleaner came     And gathered all the Binders cast aside,     And made fair sheaves thereof. Whereat I cried:     Why gather these? Who art thou? Name thy name!     The Gleaner in a sad, sweet voice replied:     The outcasts Saviour, for these, too, I died.

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