If poisonous minerals, and if that tree br Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, br If lecherous goats, if serpents envious br Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be? br Why should intent or reason, born in me, br Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous? br And Mercy being easy, and glorious br To God; in his stern wrath, why threatens he? br But who am I, that dare dispute with thee br O God? Oh! of thine only worthy blood, br And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood, br And drown in it my sin's black memory; br That thou remember them, some claim as debt, br I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.