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Like the detested tribe Of ancient Pharisees, beneath the mask Of clamorous piety, what numbers veil Contaminated, vicious hearts! How many In the devoted temple of their God, With hypocritic eye, from which the tear Of penitential anguish seems to flow, Pour forth their vows, and by affected zeal Pre-eminent devotion boast; while vice Within the guilty breast, rankles unseen.
Like the detested tribe Of ancient Pharisees, beneath the mask Of clamorous piety, what numbers veil Contaminated, vicious hearts! How many In the devoted temple of their God, With hypocritic eye, from which the tear Of penitential anguish seems to flow, Pour forth their vows, and by affected zeal Pre-eminent devotion boast; while vice Within the guilty breast, rankles unseen.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Hayes (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 314 · printed citation: Samuel Hayes · subject: HYPOCRISY
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