Repentance ( page 310 ).
Questions.
1. What is regret? 2. What does penitence add to regret? 3. How does repentance surpass the meaning of penitence, regret, sorrow, etc.? 4. What is compunction? contrition? 5. What is remorse, and how does it compare with repentance?
Examples.
What then? what rests?
Try what —— can: what can it not?
Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ——
Be a sufficient ransom for offense,
I tender't here.
So writhes the mind —— has riven,
Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven,
Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death.