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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, / That of our vices we can frame / A ladder, if we will but tread / Beneath our feet each deed of shame!
All common things, each day's events, / That with the hour begin and end, / Our pleasures and our discontents, / Are rounds by which we may ascend.