Versos English Friedrich Schiller My Antipathy.

English poem

My Antipathy.

by (1759–1805)

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I have a heartfelt aversion for crime, a twofold aversion, Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much. "What! thou hatest, then, virtue?" I would that by all it were practised, So that, God willing, no man ever need speak of it more.