When Fortune smiles, I smile to think How quickly she will frown. - Robert Southwell

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To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.

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In Aman's pomp poor Mardocheus wept,
Yet God did turn his fate upon his foe;
The Lazar pined while Dives' feast was kept,
Yet he to heaven, to hell did Dives go.
We trample grass and prize the flowers of May,
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away.

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Behold a silly tender babe,
In freezing winter night,
In homely manger trembling lies;
Alas! a piteous sight.

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