“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”

— Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

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British writer 1777–1844

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“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”