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"Oft have we learned by bitter deeds to deem 

 Not always men are candid when they seem. 

 Cowards oft courage, as a mantle, don; 

 Liars talk loud their matchless truth upon; 

 Those born ignobly own of birth no taint; 

 And sinners hide them in the name of saint. 

 Not so with Holy Nature; who is still, 

 As she hath ever been and ever will, 

 Governed by laws, by fixed unchanging rules, 

 That mock the wise man's fathoming, and fooPs; 

 She still the same external visage wears, 

 Or filled with sunny smiles, or dewy tears. 

 Her every beauty to thy touch is free, 

 Mistress as well as mother she to thee." 



THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH. 



And with these reflections we close the 

 subject, bidding our readers a kind fare- 

 well. 



THE END. 



