Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd:
Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind? (John Dryden)

Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd: Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind, To make Examples of another Kind?

John Dryden

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