Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments |
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VERSE II.
He that's devout and strict in all he does,That through the sinful world uprightly goes,
The desp'rate heights from whence the great ones fall
(Giddy with Fame) turn not his head at all:
Stands firm on Honours Pinacle, and so
Fears not the dreadful Precipice below.
Of Conscience, not of Man, he stands in aw,
Just to observe each tittle of the Law!
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His breast is open, and he speaks his heart.
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