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HYMN CXV

A prayer for forgiveness of sins 1. Whatever wrong we wittingly or in our ignorance have done,   Do ye deliver us therefrom, O all ye Gods, of one accord. 2. If I, a sinner, when awake or sleeping have committed sin,   Free me therefrom as from a stake, from present and from    future guilt. 3. As one unfastened from a stake, or cleansed by bathing after    toil,   As butter which the sieve hath cleansed, so all shall purge me    from the sin.