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Meditat. 44.

If thou wouldst go to Heav'n, my Soul, go on,
(Not as the sluggard of wise Solomon,)
Be not so timerous as he, to say,
There is a Lyon lurking in the way:
Go on with courage, let the way delight thee,
Then shall the Lyon grumble, and not bite the{e}.