 tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.  The Dublin University Magazine - Page 1841853Full view - About this book
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...* " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentlier sister woman — Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang ; To step aside is human : " One point must...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. " poet did actually hasten his end, it is needles* to conjecture. They had their share, unquestionably,... | |
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