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If you must flie, flie well.
If you must flie, flie well.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks read more
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.