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In her great and boundless mercy,
In her tender, loving kindness,
In her wisdom and her goodness
Meant that men should live and labor,
When you learn to shun the by-ways
Leading off to vicious habits,
When you learn to keep your body
Strong and clean and pure and active,
Give it work in right proportion,
Give it air, and food, and water,
Fit to build its every member,
Fit to nourish every function,
When you teach your mind and spirit
Pure and noble thoughts to harbor,
Drive out fear, and hate, and malice,
Cherish love and kindly motive,
When you learn these things I've told you,
~When you know them, when you do them,
~Then I will depart and leave you,
Then no more will Pain be needed.
IV
This is, then, the truth I bring you,
That I hurt you but to warn you,
Not to harm you but to heal you,
That I come to guide and teach you.
I am God's most blessed angel,
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