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E preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow,— The broad are too broad to define; And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar,— The truth never flaunted a sign.

Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would cover the innocent Jesus To meet so enabled a man!