And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more, Secure in my own strength as heretofore, My soul hath fallen from her state of bliss: Nor know I under any flag but this How fighting I may 'scape those perils sore, Or how survive the rout and horrid roar Of adverse hosts, if I Thy succour miss.

Holloway became a home from home, in which beaming wardresses welcomed old offenders, and to which husbands conducted erring wives in taxicabs, much as Ellwood and his brethren marched of themselves from Newgate to Bridewell, explaining to the astonished citizens of London that their word was their keeper.

Indeed, Dryden himself, in his Hind and Panther, has given such a picture of his mind, that they who know the anxiety for repose as to the aweful subject of our state beyond the grave, though they may think his opinion ill-founded, must think charitably of his sentiment: 'But, gracious GOD, how well dost thou provide For erring judgements an unerring guide!

Lo, when erring love Who fills the world, howe'er his power we shun, Else were the world a grave and we undone Assails the soul, if grace refuse to fan Our purged desires and make them soar above, What grief it were to have been born a man! LVII.

But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? 'No ('tis replied), the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws; Th' exceptions few; some change, since all began: And what created perfect?'

But, gracious God, how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide!

For the sake of erring humanity, would that I could, but for one moment, divest myself of the idea, that in writing for the young mother I am not writing for legislators and ministers!

Burns lived his sad, toilsome, erring life in the open air, with the sun and the rain, and his songs touch all the world.

Now the movement was to be turned against erring members of the Christian Church and in the terms of a metaphor much abused at that period, the Crusader was not only to destroy the wolf, but to drive the vagrant sheep back into the fold.

The soul, once tainted with so foul a crime, No more shall glow with friendship's hallow'd ardour: Those holy beings, whose superiour care Guides erring mortals to the paths of virtue, Affrighted at impiety, like thine, Resign their charge to baseness and to ruin[a].

Could Pegasus have better spur? 'Twould almost cause a saint to err A Puritan to grow polite Her little glove.

[Sidenote: to the morne,] Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding Throate Awake the God of Day: and at his warning, Whether in Sea, or Fire, in Earth, or Ayre, Th'extrauagant, and erring Spirit, hyes To his Confine.

If they have erred, 'twas but an over-care; An ill-timed duty.

The other priests in the diocese experienced none when they drove erring women out of their parishes, and the reason of this was that they followed a light from without, deliberately shutting out the light of the soul.

Parents sought him to help lead erring children back from a life of wretchedness and evil.

He was back again with his father and mother, living over his wild and erring youth.

Since age by erring childhood is misled, Refer yourself to our unerring head.

He soon comes upon ticklish matters, but his touch and hold are firm, because he feels sure that he is dealing with men who understood themselves, and who were at least resolute and honest, to whatever degree they may have erred.

Not for me the crowns of gold, Palms, and harpings manifold; Not for erring eye and feet Jasper wall and golden street.

But I am her child, and my mind grows and grows to her like the off-shoots of the banyan-tree, that take root downward, and she sucks and draws it, as she draws my feet by gravitation, and I cannot take wing from her: for she is greater than I, and there is no escaping her; and at the last, I know, my soul will dash itself to ruin, like erring sea-fowl upon pharos-lights, against her wild and mighty bosom.

"Poor erring Lady Jo!

Indeed, Dryden himself, in his Hind and Panther, has given such a picture of his mind, that they who know the anxiety for repose as to the aweful subject of our state beyond the grave, though they may think his opinion ill-founded, must think charitably of his sentiment: 'But, gracious GOD, how well dost thou provide For erring judgements an unerring guide!

'Lancelot and Elaine' follows with its conflict between the virgin innocence of Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, and the guilty passion of the noble though erring Lancelot.