To one of these, half-ruin’d and half-built,

Was traced this child of wretchedness and guilt;

There, on the remnant of a beggar’s vest,

Thrown by in scorn, the sufferer sought for rest;

There was this scene of vice and woe to close,

And there the wretched body found repose.

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LETTER XIII.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.