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Though all the doors are sure, and all our servants As sure bound with their sleeps; yet there is One That wakes above, whose eye no sleep can bind; He sees through doors, and darkness, and our thoughts; And, therefore, as we should avoid with fear, To think ourselves amiss before His search; So should we be as curious to shun All cause that others think not ill of us.
Though all the doors are sure, and all our servants As sure bound with their sleeps; yet there is One That wakes above, whose eye no sleep can bind; He sees through doors, and darkness, and our thoughts; And, therefore, as we should avoid with fear, To think ourselves amiss before His search; So should we be as curious to shun All cause that others think not ill of us.
Approximate author period: c. 1595 AD · renaissance
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- George Chapman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1595 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 530 · printed citation: George Chapman · subject: SEEING—SIGHT
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