Abashed they were not; answer thus they promptly made: “To gain aught from the poor is fraud; a trick of trade. There is no gain so good as trust placed in the Lord. What more praiseworthy than to build upon His word? How many flee _this_ danger, falling into _that_! From fryingpan leaps one, to light in fire right pat.[140] Man plans a stratagem; in it is caught himself. That which he took for health, he finds is death itself. 20 He locks his door when treason’s lurking in his house. So Pharaoh deemed he’d danger shun ere it should rouse. How many thousand infants did he doom to death; While Moses, whom he feared, his own roof was beneath. Our eyes afflicted are with various kinds of ills. Then go and make them blind, by seeing God ’tis wills. God’s sight of providence is keener than men’s eyes. By seeing with His sight, thou’lt find all thou wilt prize. An infant, that can neither grasp nor walk as yet, Takes seat upon his father’s neck, and runs. Sweet pet. 25 Some seasons past, he scarcely gains some strength of limb; When sorrow fastens on him;--sharp, and ghastly grim. The hearts of men, before they gain or power or wealth, Decline away from duty, pleasures seek by stealth. And since by God’s decree from paradise they’re rent, They prisoners become to rage, lust, discontent. We are the household of that Householder, whose word Thus spake: ‘Creation’s all as children of the Lord.’[141] He that doth send the fattening rain upon the earth, In mercy, too, can feed His creatures from their birth.” 30