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station among His works. The evil which he produces is 

 readily obviated by a little care and contrivance ; but the 

 good which he is appointed to effect is doubtless consider- 

 able in the scale of nature. 



He who dwells 

 Beside the lofty dykes w^hich nobly breast 

 A weight of waters, seeming to keep back 

 The liquid force, which sternly threatens ruin, 

 Doth hate his very name. And yet from him 

 Men may derive the lesson, not to judge 

 Things which they know not. 



