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“Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi .”
Juv. iii. 165.
Res angusta domi .”
Juv. iii. 165.
The Satirist in Rome's decline
Made this our world the stage
Of Virtue, there to walk and shine
In glitt'ring pilgrimage.
Made this our world the stage
Of Virtue, there to walk and shine
In glitt'ring pilgrimage.
The world for all of mortal birth
Doth still this judgment hold,
And puts aside as nothing worth
What is not set in gold.
Doth still this judgment hold,
And puts aside as nothing worth
What is not set in gold.
“Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.”
S. Luke vi. 20.
But He who for a holier place
Would cleanse our path from sin,
For habitation of His grace
A kingdom builds within.
Would cleanse our path from sin,
For habitation of His grace
A kingdom builds within.
His city's gates He hath rehears'd,
The first is poverty,
The Satirist's words hath He revers'd,
And changed the world's decree.
The first is poverty,
The Satirist's words hath He revers'd,
And changed the world's decree.
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