id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6442 Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Bitter-Sweet: A Poem .txt text/plain 24704 2462 96 By the strong hand of Love, brings home her babe A power not lost, as most men know, I think, At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry; I only know that God is just and good: Law cannot live, e'en in God's inmost thought, That spans my thought, like stars that know their place. God loves not sin, nor I; but in the throng Sleep like a bud; for soon the sun of life It is a great and god-like thing to do! 'Tis a great thing, I think, to be a man. The thought came swift from God, and pierced my heart, That God had pardoned; but my heart was full,-So, with my chastened heart and life, I come God's love has used those awful sins of mine Like the man with the Beard of Blue. And love the beauty of her life, ./cache/6442.txt ./txt/6442.txt