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 Two other precious drops that ready stood,
 Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
  Kiss'd.  
 Two other precious drops that ready stood,
 Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
  Kiss'd. 
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
 Often a silent face has voice and words.
 [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]  
 Often a silent face has voice and words.
 [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.] 
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
 The sense of death is most in apprehension,
 And the poor beetle that we tread upon
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 The sense of death is most in apprehension,
 And the poor beetle that we tread upon
  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
   As when a giant dies. 
A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
 When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
 But in battalions.  
 When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
 But in battalions. 
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.