What man has not betrayed <br /> Some sacred trust? <br />If haply you are made <br /> Of honest dust, <br />Vaunt not of glory due, <br /> Of triumph won: <br />Think, think of duties you <br /> Have left undone. <br /> <br />But if in mercy hope, <br /> Despite your sin, <br />The gates of Heaven ope' <br /> To let you in: <br />Pray, pray that when God reads <br /> Your judgement due, <br />He may forget good deeds <br /> You did not do. <br /> <br />Ommission sins may be <br /> The bitterest, <br />And wring in memory <br /> A heart opprest; <br />So when sweet pity pleads, <br /> Let us not rue <br />Too late, too late Kind Deeds <br /> We did not do.<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ommission/
