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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 6. CLERICAL INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor shall the eternall roll of praise reject
Last Line: Lures not from what they deem the cause of god.
First Line: Nor shall the eternall roll of praise reject
Last Line: Lures not from what they deem the cause of god.
NOR shall the eternal roll of praise reject
Those Unconforming; whom one rigorous day
Drives from their Cures, a voluntary prey
To poverty, and grief, and disrespect.
And some to want -- as if by tempests wrecked
On a wild coast how destitute! did They
Feel not that Conscience never can betray,
That peace of mind is Virtue's sure effect.
Their altars they forego, their homes they quit,
Fields which they love, and paths they daily trod,
And cast the future upon Providence;
As men the dictate of whose inward sense
Outweighs the world; whom self-deceiving wit
Lures not from what they deem the cause of God.
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