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Should some great angel say to me to-morrow, / "Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start, / But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow, / Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart."
This were my wish! -from my life's dim beginning / _Let be what has been_! wisdom planned the whole / My want, my woe, my errors, and my sinning, / All, all were needed lessons for my soul.