The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere |
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The worldly-minded and the worldly wise,In ignorance and arrogance, despise
All talents and attainments but their own;
Wisdom is their's, they think—and their's alone.
But no! the lessons of deceit and wrong,
In point of fact, are neither hard nor long:
And many know them; but a better will,
Prohibits some from practising their skill;—
Some have a taste for good, and some for ill.
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