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SOLILOQUIES ON TEMPORAL INDIGENCE: SOLILOQUY 5, by                    
First Line: With tearful eye, how frequent have I seen
Last Line: By insult poisoned, and by pride undone!
Subject(s): Poverty


WITH tearful eye, how frequent have I seen
The paltry tester drawn (as't were by force!),
And with a sullen, magisterial air
Flung, brutish, on the ground: while the pale wretch
(Less abject than the swine whose husks he craves),
Perhaps with sickness pained, and want oppressed,
Can scarcely stoop to glean the trifling prize.
Is this, O Heaven, the mercy thou shalt crown?
Is such the charity thou shalt regard
To endless ages with eternal smile?
Ah, no! -- 'tis virtue blackened into vice,
By insult poisoned, and by pride undone!





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