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golden rules in rhyme.
Confide in Friendship's right good-will, But not too often task it; "It is the highest price we pay For any thing, to ask it."
If Nature's glorious overture Discordant seem to be, love, Be sure your heart is out of tune, And try the sounding key, love!
Let more than the domestic mill Be turned by Feeling's river; Let Charity "begin at home," But not stay there forever.
Look on the poor with pitying eyes, And "reason not the need;" For angels in that mean disguise May often ask their meed.
But if a debt by honor seal'd Uncancell'd yet remain, Oh, ne'er to generous impulse yield What Justice asks in vain!
