Innate Goodness
There is no heart but hath some good therein
Some better thought, a ??? that gently ????
Into high faith and ??? ??? shall ????
Bountiful plains, which day by day, ??? ???
The ???? hears from the ??? ??? of sin.
The human breast is not that thing accursed
Which ye have deemed it, ???? of the worst
Of human ills, ??? ???? hath it been
The Rabbi’s toil[?] to utterly dethrone
The indwelling Greatness, which alone makes man;
But not in vain hath Love’s sweet sunbeam shone
Or Pity’s dew been shed, since time began;
They call to life the buried good which slept,
And teach the bigot priest how well God’s gift is kept.
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