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Matthew Arnold - The Good Shepherd With The Kid
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  _He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save._
  So rang Tertullian`s sentence, on the side
  Of that unpitying Phrygian Sect which cried:
  "Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,

  Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave."--
  So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed,
  The infant Church! of love she felt the tide
  Stream on her from her Lord`s yet recent grave.

  And then she smiled; and in the Catacombs,
  With eye suffused but heart inspired true,
  On those walls subterranean, where she hid

  Her head in ignominy, death, and tombs,
  She her good Shepherd`s hasty image drew--
  And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.
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