In heav'n, the saint nor pity feels, nor care,For those thus sentenced - pity might disturbThe delicate sense and most divine reposeOf spiritus angelicalBlessed be God,The measure of his judgments is not fixedBy man's erroneous standard. He discernsNo such inordinate difference and vastBetwixt the sinner and the saint, to doomSuch disproportion'd fates.Compared with him,No man on earth is holy called: they bestStand in his sight approved, who at his feetTheir little crowns of virtue cast, and yield,To him of his own works the praise, his due.
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Charles Lamb was a 18th-century English essayist, poet, and antiquarian. Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Read more on Wikipedia →