Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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AN EPIGRAM. |
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AN EPIGRAM.
Pray what is that you're looking for?“Why something I have lost.”
That I suppose—but have a care,
Your labour's worth the cost.
“That I must leave; it is to me,
“The loss you know is mine.”
And so it will, whate'er it be,
The temple, or its shrine.
'Tis not the losing then's the thing,
But 'tis the thing that's lost:
A beggar's equal to a king,
And each may curse the cost!
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