If beauty thou hast not, run not thou that race.”
An ugly face ugly is, all the world round.
A blind eye’s affliction, where’er it be found.
In presence of Joseph, no coquetries use.[244]
But humble thyself; soft entreaties infuse.
The parrot had death simulated, as prayer.
Do thou to pride die; thou mayest so live for e’er.370
From Jesus a breath may, then, blow upon thee;
Transform thee to what he was, what thou mayest be.
A stone will not blossom because it is spring.