Doth God pervert 

 Justice and judgment? If thy way was pure, 

 Thy supplication from an upright heart 

 He would awake and make thy latter end 

 More blest than thy beginning. 

 For inquire 

 Of ancient times, of History's honor'd scroll 

 And of the grey-hair'd fathers, if our words 

 Seem light, we who were born but yesterday. 

 Ask them and they shall teach thee, as the rush, 

 Or as the flag forsaken of the pod, 

 So shall the glory of the hypocrite 

 Fade in its greenness. 

 Tho' his house may seem 

 Awhile to flourish, it shall not endure. 

 Even tho' he grasp it with despairing strength 

 It shall deceive his trust and pass away, 

 As fleets the spider's filmy web. Behold 

 God will not cast away the perfect man 

 Nor help the evil doer." 

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