Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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POVERTY. |
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POVERTY.
Oh God! it is a soulsupporting Thought,To think that ever the more poor we be,
The richer in all genuine Wealth are we,
If we have but the calm Belief that naught
Life yields has Value, save as it be wrought
To fitting Use and Application by
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Its godlike Office! save as we be taught
By it to see that all Things take their Worth
From our ownselves, yea, even from the Way
In which we look at them! this ample Earth
At one Man's Feet its ample Stores will lay,
While of all inward Good another's Dearth
Deprives him even of the Light of Day!
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