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Rh {| align="center" The wild deer wandering here and there Keep the human soul from care: The lamb misused breeds public strife, And yet forgives the butchef's knife. Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the last judgment draweth nigh; The beggar's dog, and widow's cat, Feed them, and thou shalt grow fat. Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in Eternity; The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar, Are waves, that beat on Heaven's shore. The bat that flits at close of eve Has left the brain that won't believe; The owl that calls upon the night Speaks the unbeliever's fight; The gnat that sings his summer's song Poison gets from slander's tongue; The poison of the snake and newt Is the sweat of envy's foot; The poison of the honey bee Is the artist's jealousy; The strongest poison ever known Came from Cesafs laurel-crown. Naught can deform the human race L;lre to the armourer's iron brace; The soldier armed with sword and gun Palsied strikes the s,mmer's sun; When gold and gems adorn the plough, To peaceful arts shall envy bow; The boggafs rags fluttering in air Do to rags the heavens tear; The prince's robes and beggaffs rags Are toadstools on the miser's bags; One mite wrung from the labourer's hands Shall buy and sell the miser's lands, Or, if protected from on high, Shall that whole nation sell and buy;
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