Truth in Fiction Or, Morality in Masquerade. A Collection of Two hundred twenty five Select Fables of Aesop, and other Authors. Done into English Verse. By Edmund Arwaker |
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The MORAL.
‘If Heav'n, that amply do's supply our Wants,‘To try, or punish us, resumes its Grants;
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‘We humbly must with Providence comply.
‘The Blessings we enjoy are all God's Loan,
‘Nor shou'd we murmur, if he claims his own:
‘Repining can so little give us Ease,
‘That what it seeks to lessen, 'twill encrease:
‘For Murm'ring Wretches do Heaven's Wrath provoke
‘To punish them with a severer Stroke.
‘Whoe'er dares question God's Prerogative,
‘And will not let him take, aswell as give;
‘Draws his resenting Vengeance on his Head,
‘And feels the heavy Blow, alive, or dead:
‘But all who to its Will do theirs resign,
‘And ne'er at its Correcting Hand repine,
‘Lighten the Weight they, with Submission, bear,
‘And find Rewards above, for Suff'rings here.
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