p. 8 | FORGIVE ME by Margaret May

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1894

FORGIVE ME.

By Margaret May

BY MARGARET MAY.

WHEN we stand before the living With a bitter sense of wrong, Stern, and cold, and unforgiving, 'Mid a tide of passion strong,

With a kind of proud complaisance, We but see their blameful part, And we go out from their presence With a hard, unyielding heart.

When beside our dead we're kneeling, In our agony we cry, Sobbing, with repentant feeling, "Oh, forgive me, it was I!"

Father, save us from the weeping, From the hopeless cry that knells Over loved ones who are sleeping, With lips mute in Death's farewells.

—New York Observer.