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XXIV.
“Οι δ' ευεργεται τους ευεργετηθεντας δοκουσι μαλλον φιλειν,
η οι ευ παθοντες τους δρασαντας.”
Arist Eth. ix. 7.
The Sage of that Socratic school
Who laid out Wisdom's chart by rule,
Said, by its deeds Love forms and grows;
Thus Love back to its fountain flows.
Who laid out Wisdom's chart by rule,
Said, by its deeds Love forms and grows;
Thus Love back to its fountain flows.
“Proprium odisse quem læseris.”
Tac. Agric. 42.
The Historian stern of Rome's decay
Survey'd the dregs of that dark day,
And reason'd well—that deeds of ill
Their parent breast with hatred fill.
Survey'd the dregs of that dark day,
And reason'd well—that deeds of ill
Their parent breast with hatred fill.
“You, that were enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath He reconciled.”
Col. i. 21.
To sin 'gainst God and then to hate,
O death of deaths most desolate,—
That in ourselves by evil deeds
We quench the source whence Love proceeds!
O death of deaths most desolate,—
That in ourselves by evil deeds
We quench the source whence Love proceeds!
But how dost Thou in Thy dear Son
Make evil deeds to be undone?
Obedience is Love's mystery,
Which lives by learning first to die.
Make evil deeds to be undone?
Obedience is Love's mystery,
Which lives by learning first to die.
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