THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN by HENRY VAUGHAN

To love our God with all our strength and will;
To covet nothing, to devise no ill
Against our neighbors; to procure or do
Nothing to others which we would not do
Our very selves; not to revenge our wrong;
To be content with little; not to long
For wealth and greatness; to despise or jeer
No man, and, if we be despised, to bear;
To feed the hungry; to hold fast our crown;
To take from others naught; to give our own—
These are his precepts, and alas, in these
What is so hard but faith can do with ease?

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