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Occasional verse, moral and sacred

Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet]

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OFFENCES THREATENED.

Woe to the man! whose life his living shame,
Stabs his profession, as it blots his fame:
The dire effect is not his loss alone,
A thousand more may be involved in one.
How dreadful then, when thousands may bewail
The fatal block o'er which they drove to hell!