SAFETY TO LOOK TO ONESELF.
by Robert Herrick


FOR my neighbour I'll not know,
Whether high he builds or no :
Only this I'll look upon,
Firm be my foundation.
Sound or unsound, let it be !
'Tis the lot ordain'd for me.
He who to the ground does fall
Has not whence to sink at all.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 103.
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