Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Greatness and Goodness. |
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On Greatness and Goodness.
Greatness is with a strong desire affected,And often sought with hazard, cost, and pain.
Goodness, of greater worth, is less respected,
Priz'd as a thing both needless is, and vain.
Greatness aspires, and sets it self on high,
While Goodness walks below with humble pace:
The first is follow'd with an Eagle's eye,
The last is thought unworthy of the Chace.
But Greatness seeks that which is transitory,
And Goodness aims at Grace, which leads to Glory,
Lord, let thy Grace my mundane thoughts defeat,
That I may study to be Good, not Great.
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