WOULD we let our envy burst,
Feed its hunger fully first!
To keep our proper place,
We'll show our bristles more;
With hawks men all things chase,
Except the savage boar.
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BY those who themselves more bravely have fought
A hero's praise will be joyfully told.
The worth of man can only be taught
By those who have suffer'd both heat and cold.
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"WHEREFORE is truth so far from our eyes,
Buried as though in a distant land?"
None at the proper moment are wise!
Could they properly understand,
Truth would appear in her own sweet guise,
Beauteous, gentle, and close at hand.
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WHY these inquiries make,
Where charity may flow?
Cast in the flood thy cake,—
Its eater, who will know?
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ONCE when I a spider had kill'd,
Then methought: wast right or wrong?
That we both to these times should belong,
This had God in His goodness willed.
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MOTLEY this congregation is, for, lo!
At the communion kneel both friend and foe.
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IF the country I'm to show,
Thou must on the housetop go.
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A MAN with households twain