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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
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.
God helps those who help themselves.
God helps those who help themselves.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want read more
Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
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.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
