Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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WHAT IS THE WORST EVIL THAT CAN HAPPEN? |
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WHAT IS THE WORST EVIL THAT CAN HAPPEN?
Sin, guilt, and hell, the worst of all,That men or angels can befall:
Compar'd with which, nor grief, nor pain,
Can bear the balance of a grain.
Not that the pangs of guilt and hell,
Are easy to endure or tell:
These are the effect, the direful fruit
Of sin, the origin and root.
And as the effect of such a source,
Are doubtless bad enough of course,
Hence therefore we may just infer,
Without the logic of the chair,
“If such the fruit, and e'er has been,
“The worst of all the three is sin.”
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