"My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls."

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Source : Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

Robert Southwell

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