Divine Fancies Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles |
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40. On the Babel-Builders.
Svre, if those Babel-Builders had thought goodTo raise their heav'n-high Towre before the flood,
The wiser sort of people might deride
Their Folly, and that Folly'had salv'd their Pride;
Or had their Faiths but enterpriz'd that Plott,
Their hearts had finisht what their hands could not;
'Twas not for love of Heav'n: nor did they ayme
So much to rayse a Building; as a Name:
They that by Works shall seeke to make intrusion
To Heav'n, find nothing but their owne Confusion.
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