Ommission

 What man has not betrayed
 Some sacred trust?
If haply you are made
 Of honest dust,
Vaunt not of glory due,
 Of triumph won:
Think, think of duties you
 Have left undone.


But if in mercy hope,
 Despite your sin,
The gates of Heaven ope'
 To let you in:
Pray, pray that when God reads
 Your judgement due,
He may forget good deeds
 You did not do.


Ommission sins may be
 The bitterest,
And wring in memory
 A heart opprest;
So when sweet pity pleads,
 Let us not rue
Too late, too late Kind Deeds
 We did not do.

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