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When with deep agony His heart was racked, Not for Himself the tear-drop dewed His cheek, For them He wept, for them to Heaven He prayed,— His persecutors—“Father pardon them; They know not what they do.”
When with deep agony His heart was racked, Not for Himself the tear-drop dewed His cheek, For them He wept, for them to Heaven He prayed,— His persecutors—“Father pardon them; They know not what they do.”
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Charles Lamb
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 426 · printed citation: Charles Lamb · subject: PARDON
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