Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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EXTEMPORE THOUGHTS ON DISCONTENT.
Go! thou base, ungrateful fiend!Who nor know'st nor hast a friend;
For ever rash, for ever rude,
Mirror of ingratitude!
Cause of sin, and scource of strife,
Bane of health, and curse of life;
Author of domestic jars,
Mischief, murders, feuds, and wars;
Hating all that's great or good,
Discontent thy daily food,
Never dwells a moment's rest,
In the suburbs of thy breast;
Ever pain'd at wisdom's plan,
Like displeas'd at god and man;
Self-sufficient, mean, and weak,
Prone to slander as to speak;
Full of malice, full of spleen,
Poisonous as an asp, and keen;
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And whom nor Heaven nor earth can please;
Within whose breast is hourly felt
All the pangs of envious guilt,
Guilt that, conscious of its rod,
Vents its lashings at its God;
Curs'd with all that sense can feel,
Bitter antepast of hell!
Turn thee, fiend, from all thou art,
Vent the ravings of thy heart,
[illeg.] the bosom of thy God,
Curse the crime, and kiss the rod;
Cry aloud, and vocal tell
That thy least desert is hell;
That to hell, and to its woe,
All thou art deserves to go:
Then shall He, who made thee, save
Not thy body from the grave;
But thy life's immortal breath
From the jaws of endless death;
Where they endless death lament,
Who lie down in discontent!
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