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'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]