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THE REAPER - ZaunköniG - 09.08.2014 THE REAPER IF one should with his final breath repent And prostrate all his soul for evil ways In hope of mercy, if his clouding gaze, Now catching light that hitherto was spent In vain for him, sees every wrong event In his whole span of years, as in a blaze Of sudden fire one sees with the stark amaze Wide tracts of dusty ruin, where a rent Yawns through the earth, will he go down to sleep With no more debt to pay because of sin ? It may not be ! his very hands must reap, Until the hideous crop be gathered in, All he hath sown ; and though he cry and weep He hath no rest till all be clean within. |