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[Alas for him! whose teaching pride]

Good were it for that man if he had, &c. —xiv. 21.

Alas for him! whose teaching pride
Peoples the realms beneath,
And helps poor sinners to deride
The never-dying death!
Who madly mocks the endless pain,
And laughs his God to scorn—
Good were it for that wretched man,
If he had ne'er been born!