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What but the love of God could have softened / And made forgiving the people of Spoon River / Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt / And murdered him beside?
Oh, loving hearts that took me in again / When I returned from fourteen years in prison!
Oh, helping hands that in the church received me, / And heard with tears my penitent confession, / Who took the sacrament of bread and wine!
Repent, ye living ones, and rest with Jesus.