Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[He who to that tribunal, deep within]
He who to that tribunal, deep within,The court of conscience!—ever trembling turns,
Nor its high counsel mocks, its dictate spurns,
Doth well indeed—for foul and haggard sin,
Close watch'd, doth drop the mask—nor seeks to win
His confidence by crafts and sleights:—who learns
To make this bright election, never mourns
Or change or wrong;—but whoso of the din
Of reeking vain opinion, makes alone
His guide and key-note, shall most surely rue
Disastrous dark vicissitude;—for none
Shall find this world's crude, hurried judgments true
As his own soul's approval, or its tone
Of just reproach, when wrong he stoops to do!
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