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Extract from a Poem intitled,
"The Age instructed."
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Extract from a Poem intitled,
"The Age instructed."[42]
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Alas! how many people, in these days, u
der a human shape,
Conceal a heart as full of venom, as serpent
Who among them remembereth, that t eyes of heaven,
Which are more active than the motion a wheel,
Look on all sides, and nothing can escape them
That, which one man some months ag stole from his neighbour in the west,
Is passed by this time out of his hands into
those of his neighbour towards the north.
In vain doth any one flatter himself, that by his artifices,
He shall be able to make his fortune at the expence of his neighbour.
This pretended fortune is no more durable, than the flowers,
Which we see open in the morning, and shed their leaves in the evening.
All riches, that are unlawfully acquired, melt like a snow ball, in the hands of their possessor.
Conceal a heart as full of venom, as serpent
Who among them remembereth, that t eyes of heaven,
Which are more active than the motion a wheel,
Look on all sides, and nothing can escape them
That, which one man some months ag stole from his neighbour in the west,
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In vain doth any one flatter himself, that by his artifices,
He shall be able to make his fortune at the expence of his neighbour.
This pretended fortune is no more durable, than the flowers,
Which we see open in the morning, and shed their leaves in the evening.
All riches, that are unlawfully acquired, melt like a snow ball, in the hands of their possessor.
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