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And we all have known
Good critics, who have stamped out poet’s hopes;
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state;Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause;
Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax;
Good popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sate still in easy chairs,
And damned the general world for standing up.—
Now, may the good God pardon all good men!