Tasso and the Sisters Tasso's Spirit: The Nuptials of Juno: The Skeletons: The Spirits of the Ocean. Poems, By Thomas Wade |
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‘Regard not outward show—it falsifies:—
The lightest finger steals the heaviest purse;
More saintly nothing than a villain's speech.
Plain is the plumage of melodious birds—
Gaudy, of those which sing not; the loud drone
Preserves no honey in its noisy flight,
But how industrious is the silent bee!
Trust not the man who hath a specious smile
For ever on his face, and on his tongue
Most pliant words—the world's a world of rogues,
And few are honest who do honest seem.
Of all things doubt—give ample faith to none,
And thine own senses credit least of all.’
The lightest finger steals the heaviest purse;
More saintly nothing than a villain's speech.
Plain is the plumage of melodious birds—
Gaudy, of those which sing not; the loud drone
Preserves no honey in its noisy flight,
But how industrious is the silent bee!
Trust not the man who hath a specious smile
For ever on his face, and on his tongue
Most pliant words—the world's a world of rogues,
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Of all things doubt—give ample faith to none,
And thine own senses credit least of all.’
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