A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects By Sir Richard Blackmore |
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Matth. V. 29, 30.
If thy Right Eye offend thee, pluck it out, &c.
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Matth. V. 29, 30. If thy Right Eye offend thee, pluck it out, &c.
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The hardy Deed is done at last,My Criminal Offensive Eye,
Pluckt out by Force, I've from me cast;
There do's the bleeding Rebel lie.
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No more ensnaring Images,Let in by that perfidious Gate,
Shall, by Surprize, my Bosom seize,
And guilty Passion there create.
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Now for my Hand! at one brave Stroke'Tis gone, I spurn it with Disdain;
Its Guilt no more shall Heav'n provoke,
No more produce my inward Pain.
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'Tis better far to enter soDismember'd into Heav'nly Bliss,
Than Healthful and Unmaim'd to go
Down to th' Infernal Black Abyss.
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