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 —Ah, moralizing premature! And yet words half-supprest May find some secret thoughts ensure Acceptance half-confest.

Full oft concealed high meanings work; And, scorning observation, In gay unthinking guise will lurk A saintly aspiration;

No sickly thing to sit and sun Its puny worth, to pause And list, ere half the deed be done, Its echo—self-applause:

No idler, who its kindly cares To every gossip mentions, And at its breast a posy wears Of laudable intentions.

As of itself, of others so Unrecognised to seek Its aim content, and in the flow Of life and spirits meek.