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On Flatteries (from The Greek)

William Cowper

No mischief worthier of our fear
In nature can be found
Than friendship, in ostent sincere,
But hollow and unsound,
For lull'd into a dangerous dream
We close infold a foe,
Who strikes, when most secure we seem,
The inevitable blow.

(C) William Cowper
04/04/2017


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