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 Take time enough: all other graces
 Will soon fill up their proper places.  
 Take time enough: all other graces
 Will soon fill up their proper places. 
 A kick that scarce would move a horse,
 May kill a sound divine.  
 A kick that scarce would move a horse,
 May kill a sound divine. 
 I preached as never sure to preach again,
 And as a dying man to dying men.  
 I preached as never sure to preach again,
 And as a dying man to dying men. 
 The priest he merry is, and blithe
 Three-quarters of a year,
  But oh! it cuts him like read more 
 The priest he merry is, and blithe
 Three-quarters of a year,
  But oh! it cuts him like a scythe
   When tithing time draws near. 
 He that negotiates between God and man,
 As God's ambassador, the grand concerns
  Of judgment and of read more 
 He that negotiates between God and man,
 As God's ambassador, the grand concerns
  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware
   Of lightness in his speech. 
 They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam 
whar the lion roareth and the Wang read more 
 They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam 
whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first 
born--ah! 
 The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
 Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
  His preaching read more 
 The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
 Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
  His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;
   (A living sermon of the truths he taught:)
    For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:
     That all might see the doctrines which they heard. 
 God preaches, a noted clergyman,
 And the sermon is never long;
  So instead of getting to heaven read more 
 God preaches, a noted clergyman,
 And the sermon is never long;
  So instead of getting to heaven at last,
   I'm going all along. 
 Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
 Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
  Loud as the read more 
 Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
 Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
  Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,
   Not practise!