<h2><SPAN name="page100"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>MISTAKES</h2>
<p class="poetry">God sent us here to make mistakes,<br/>
To strive, to fail, to re-begin,<br/>
To taste the tempting fruit of sin,<br/>
And find what bitter food it makes,</p>
<p class="poetry">To miss the path, to go astray,<br/>
To wander blindly in the night;<br/>
But, searching, praying for the light,<br/>
Until at last we find the way.</p>
<p class="poetry">And looking back along the past,<br/>
We know we needed all the strain<br/>
Of fear and doubt and strife and pain<br/>
To make us value peace, at last.</p>
<p class="poetry">Who fails, finds later triumph sweet;<br/>
Who stumbles once, walks then with care,<br/>
And knows the place to cry “Beware”<br/>
To other unaccustomed feet.</p>
<p class="poetry">Through strife the slumbering soul awakes,<br/>
We learn on error’s troubled route<br/>
The truths we could not prize without<br/>
The sorrow of our sad mistakes.</p>
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