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Yet, since the effects of Providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind; That Vice triumphs and Virtue suffers here, A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear; Our reason prompts us to a future state, The last appeal from fortune and from fate: Where God’s all-righteous ways will be declared; The bad meet punishment, the good reward.
Yet, since the effects of Providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind; That Vice triumphs and Virtue suffers here, A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear; Our reason prompts us to a future state, The last appeal from fortune and from fate: Where God’s all-righteous ways will be declared; The bad meet punishment, the good reward.
Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- John Dryden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 476 · printed citation: Dryden · subject: REASON—REASONS
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