Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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INSINCERITY,
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INSINCERITY,
The Bar to Happiness.
I
When I am ask'd, “What would you have?”I know not what to chuse:
I know, indeed, what I should crave,
But that's what I refuse.
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“Why, then, if you may ask and haveThe thing you ought to ask,
Can it be right to whine or rave,
As cruel were the task?”
III
Why no, I do not think it is;But still, I know not why,
'Tis natural for what we wish
Both to repine and cry.
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IV
“'Tis so—and 'tis what Nature pleads;But, pray, where's reason then:
Or rather where religion's creeds,
To which she says—Amen!”
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