Why doesn’t God nip all evil in the bud, so
as to eradicate suffering?
Our
business is to learn that death is sin’s most necessary recompense;
and
so to choose what’s right, not wrong, without a hint of diffidence.
This
we can only do if every choice has its sure consequence.
There
must be moral hazard, founded on unswerving law;
or
else between wisdom and folly there would be no difference,
there
would be no divide between what’s reckless and prudence.
If
on jumping from a precipice I did not fall to stony floor,
always
being rescued by an angel’s hand; presumption
hyperbolic
(that’s
filled with risk and self-despond) would be remade as merry frolic!
–
which would, after not long, become most tedious, and nothing more.
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