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thou didst hate for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,
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their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
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these parents who murder helpless lives, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
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that the land most precious of all to thee might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
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But even these thou didst spare, since they were but men, and didst send wasps as forerunners of thy army, to destroy them little by little,