Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
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On an unknown generous Person.
'Tis Virtue to the highest Pitch to raise,At once to merit, and decline the Praise:
While conscious inward Joy and deep Delight
Approve the Doer, and the Deed requite.
Tho' modest Worth its own Desert may wrong.
Yet ev'n from Silence he demands a Tongue,
Who like dispensing Providence bestows:
The Good confers, concealing the Dispose:
So oft descending Pow'rs, in Mists array'd,
Veil'd the bright Glory with impervious Shade.
Poems on Several Occasions | ||