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CONFESSION by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

First Line: LOVE CAME TO EARTH WITH FAITH AND TRUST
Last Line: "AND GOD SERENELY ANSWERED -- ""IT IS MINE."
Subject(s): DEATH; EARTH; FAITH; LOVE; PEACE; DEAD, THE; WORLD; BELIEF; CREED;
Love came to Earth with faith and trust,
And found all nations steeped in lust.

Sweet Pity came in ways sublime,
Her eyes on every side saw crime.

Health, peerless, sprang from Heaven's breath,
And came to Earth to find -- but Death.

While Peace to see our Love and Law
Arrived to witness cruel War.

Then back to Heaven the angels flew,
Their golden pinions draped in dew.

* * * * * *

Asking whose fault is this, oh God divine,
And God serenely answered -- "It is mine."



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