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Where is thy brother, guilty Cain?
Against whom only is thy fraud—
Speak, Ananias! teach again
That sin to man is sin to God.

Meet thy high calling glad and strong;
Let pain nor pleasure stay thy flight;
Yet through one little human wrong
Thou shalt not lead the hosts of right.
While rainbow truths dark errors span,
While burst sweet blossoms from the sod,
He who is truest unto man
Is ever truest to his God.

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