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George Herbert - The World
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Love built a stately house: where Fortune came:
And spinning phansies, she was heard to say,
That her fine cobwebs did support the frame,
Whereas they were supported by the same:
But Wisdome quickly swept them all away.

Then Pleasure came, who liking not the fashion.
Began to make Balcones, Terraces,
Till she had weakned all by alteration:
But rev`rend laws, and many a proclamation
Reformed all at length with menaces.

Then enter`d Sinne, and with that Sycomore,
Whose leaves first sheltred man from drought and dew,
Working and winding silly evermore,
The inward walls and Sommers cleft and tore:
But Grace shor`d these, and cut that as it grew.

Then Sinne combined with Death in a firm band,
To rase the building to the very floore:
Which they effected, none could them withstand;
But Love and Grace by the hand,
And built a braver Palace than before.
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