On a tomb in St. Ives' churchyard.
Bold Infidelity! Turn pale and die!
Beneath this stone three infants' ashes lie.
Say! Are they lost or saved?
If death's by sin, they sinned: because
they're here;
If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't
appear.
Reason—ah, how depraved!
Review the Bible's sacred page the—knot's untied:
They died, for Adam sinned; they live, for
Jesus died!
“BLESSED ARE THEY WHOSE INIQUITIES ARE FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED.”