Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'.
Topics: classic
What men gain fairly - that they should possess, And children may inherit idleness, From him who earns it - This is understood; Private injustice may be general good. But he who gains by base and armed wrong, Or guilty fraud, or base compliances, May be despoiled; even as a stolen dress Is stripped from a convicted thief; and he Left in the nakedness of infamy.
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