The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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He, who adopts religions, wrong or right,Is not a convert, but an hypocrite:
Him, seeming what he is not, man esteems;
God hates him, for he is not what he seems.
The bull-rush thus a specious out-side wears,
Smooth as the shining rind the poplar bears:
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And all is insubstantial sponge within.
When not a whisper breathes upon the trees,
Unmov'd it stands, but bends with ev'ry breeze.
It boasts th'ablution of a silver flood,
But feeds on mire, and roots itself in mud.
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