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TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DIVINE.
To mar, nor to upbraid ;
Bow meekly rather to His Will
Who thine affliction laid !
Seek not with violence to do
What patience may effect ;
means 'tis eafier oft
By gentle
To heal and to correct.
Try thefe, my friend, they may avail,
But mould they not fucceed,
Spare thine own flem, nor mar thy face
By fuch ungodly deed.
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Of conduct to deduce UJ
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The failings of thy friend,
To him who to thy blood belongs,
Thine helping hand extend : 1C?
When hufband or the wife have left
Their duty's path awhile
A mother, brother,
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fitter err'd,
UJ Strive thou to reconcile.
Forfake thy kindred not that they
Have falPn their crofs beneath ;
The ftrength has not been giv'n to all
To gain the Victor's wreath :
Though thou their errors mayeft hate, U.
Let judgment be deferr'd;
Hate thou not them, but pity more
That they mould fo have err'd.
Drag not their faults into the light,
But kindly draw the veil,
As teaches Love, that other eyes
May fee not where they fail.
Be the Phyfician thou, and ftrive
All that thou canft to cure ;
Canft thou not heal, then learn, and teach
How others may endure.
The fufFring limb by force is not made whole ,
Nor heals Reproof the gangrene of the foul.
CHARITY SHALL. COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS.
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