The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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25.
Perfect would be our nature and our joyIf man could ev'ry year one vice destroy .
Withdraw thee from the sins that most assail,
And labour where thy virtues least prevail.
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