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Safety To Look To Oneself

by Robert Herrick, 1648

For my neighbour I’ll not know,
Whether high he builds or no:
Only this I’ll look upon,
Firm be my foundation.
Sound or unsound, let it be!
’Tis the lot ordain’d for me.
He who to the ground does fall
Has not whence to sink at all.

Published in Hesperides
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