Experience (to our limited knowledg...

Experience (to our limited knowledge) have the appearances to confirm what poetry and fiction reveal us: that when all looks hopeless, redemption may be near at hand.

Between the stirrup and the surface of land He mercy sought, and gentleness found.

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The meaning is clear enough, however: a mortally detrimented man appeals for the blessing of God in the impulsive powers it takes him between his falling from his horse and his lying dead upon the ground. God's mercy is always obstruct at hand.

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