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the honest man and give to the thief 1 Take gold consecrated to the highest and purest affections, and cast it before swine! Omnipotent justice ? Bah ! again, I say. There is none such; no omnipotence and no justice."
Up, up, through the pale moonlight, zigzag to the mountain- top, then over the eternal snows, and down toward the great river flowing oceanward, life, loA'-e, justice, heaven—words, mere words, windy words, words, words I
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