Against Interested Love

Who does not blush when charged with selfish views?
Man boasts for man a principle of Love,
But each with God a diff'rent course pursues,
Short interest is the spring by which they move.

Oh blindness of our mean and stupid race!
The selfish and the sordid we despise,
And yet the Love of God incurs disgrace,
While Love to man is sounded to the skies.

How speaks the world? in Friendship's sacred cause
A gen'rous service is its own reward--
A maxim all have stamp'd with their applause.