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—Ah, moralizing premature!
And yet words half-supprest
May find some secret thoughts ensure
Acceptance half-confest.
Full oft concealed high meanings work;
And, scorning observation,
In gay unthinking guise will lurk
A saintly aspiration;
No sickly thing to sit and sun
Its puny worth, to pause
And list, ere half the deed be done,
Its echo—self-applause:
No idler, who its kindly cares
To every gossip mentions,
And at its breast a posy wears
Of laudable intentions.
As of itself, of others so
Unrecognised to seek
Its aim content, and in the flow
Of life and spirits meek.
