Ambition, and Other Poems/Ambition

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Ambition
I had Ambition, by which sin The angels fell;I climbed and, step by step, O Lord, Ascended into Hell.
Returning now to peace and quiet, And made more wise,Let my descent and fall, O Lord, Be into Paradise.
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