The complete poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont ... For the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introduction, notes and illustrations, glossarial index, and portrait &c. by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart |
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The Times.
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The Times.
I
Why slander we the Times?What Crimes
Have Days and Years, that we
Thus charge on them Iniquity?
If we would rightly scan,
'Tis not the Times are bad, but Man.
II
Constant Obedience theyDo pay
To their great Maker; and
Do we do so? Nay, never stand
To study Shifts; 'tis plain
'Tis our Blot which the Times doth stain.
III
If thy Desire it beTo see
The Times prove good, be thou
But such thyself, and surely know
That all thy Days to thee
Shall, spite of Mischief, happy be.
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