'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.

Seeming genial, venial fault.

Seeming genial, venial fault.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

One man thinks one thing best, another another.

One man thinks one thing best, another another.