"With guilt's defilement stained without, within, How can I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? —Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin.""
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"Questionings", Stanza 3, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 38
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Margaret Junkin Preston
1820 – 1897
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was an American poet and author remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.
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