Accounts with sin for once, and bade us wake
From our long dream that justice bears no sword,
Or else forgets whereto its sharpness serves.'"A
A: Bernard de Mandeville.
But he tells us in his later poems, that there is no answer vouchsafed to man's cry to the Power, that it should reveal
"What heals all harm,
Nay, hinders the harm at first,
Saves earth."B
B: Reverie—Asolando.
And yet, so far as man can see, there were no bar to the remedy, if "God's all-mercy" did really "mate His all-potency."