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The Seraphs came to Christ, and said: "Behold! / The man, presumptuous and overbold, / Who boasted that his mercy could excel / Thine own, is dead and on his way to Hell."
Gravely the Saviour asked: "What did he do / To make his impious assertion true?"
"He was a Governor, releasing all / The vilest felons ever held in thrall.
No other mortal, since the dawn of time, / Has ever pardoned such a mass of crime!"
Christ smiled benignly on the Seraphim: / "Yet I am victor, for I pardon "him"."