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...death to rid me hence, The worst that he can give, to me the best. Yet so it may fall out, because their end Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine...how comely it is, and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppress'd ! When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might To quell...

...death to rid me hence, The worst that he can give, to me the best. Yet so it may fall out, because their end Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine...how comely it is, and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppress'd ! When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might To quell...

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...brave in a devout trust in the all-ruling providence of God, is the following passage : — Chorus — Oh, how comely it is, and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppress'd, When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might To quell...