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If popularity you would ensue, Speak well of Moslem, Christian, and Jew; So shall you be esteemed of great and small, And none will venture to speak ill of you.

O wheel of heaven, what have I done to you, That you should thus annoy me? Tell me true; To get a drink I have to cringe and stoop, And for my bread you make me beg and sue.

No longer hug your grief and vain despair, But in this unjust world be just and fair; And since the issue of the world is naught, Think you are naught, and so shake off dull care!