Touches on The Harp of Nature in the Same Key as Burns' Grand Anthem. By Henry Ellison |
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ON DOING NO INJURY.
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ON DOING NO INJURY.
Wrong thou no living being, tho' but byThe least ill thought; for tho' sure that it ne'er
Can be discovered, yet there is, I fear,
Still one to whom it must unfailingly
Be known: thyself! and thus the injury
Is done to thee! and this will become clear,
Wilt thou but think what man should hold most dear,
His soul, and all else for it! now if thy
Own self-respect be lessened by a thought
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Thyself a lasting injury, which naught
Can make good to thee? thou hast in thine own
Eyes lessened thyself; the worst ill! and one
Which none, but thou thyself, could e'er have wrought!
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