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136.

[Blind to our own through selfish love]

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy, &c. —vii. 3.

Blind to our own through selfish love,
Another's sin we plainly see,
Another's sin with haste reprove,
But spare our own infirmity;
By nature and the serpent taught,
Our grossest evils we disguise,
But aggravate our neighbour's fault;
And malice gives us piercing eyes.