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CHANDOS.
people’s love upon him, the bitterness of the past died; the crucifixion of his passions lost its anguish; the serenity of a pardon hard to yield, yet godlike when attained, came to him with the self-conquest he had reached, and the promise of the future rose before him—
Even as the bow which God hath bent in heaven.
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