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679.

[Ye upstart priests, your sentence know]

Uzziah was a leper unto the day of his death. —xxvi. 21.

Ye upstart priests, your sentence know,
The marks you can no longer hide,
Your daring deeds too plainly show
The loathsome leprosy of pride;
And if ye still your crime deny,
Who lepers live, shall lepers die.