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Yet know they not the inward pulse to feel,
To ease the anguish, or the wound to heal.
With the sick sinner thus their work begins:
'Do you repent you of your former sins?
Will you amend if you revive and live,
And, pardon seeking, will you pardon give?
Have you belief in what your Lord has done,
And are you thankful?—all is well, my son.'
"A way far different ours—we thus surprise