 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...who never understood The deepest wounds are given by praise, By rule of state, but not of good; Who hath his life from rumours freed; Whose conscience...flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than goods to send, THE CYCLES And entertains the harmless... | |
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...ever understood, How deepest wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains... | |
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This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. 
