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ure in these islands Ms debtor well, I say, might your 

 noble old Carlyle scornfully retort on such interpreters of 

 the ways of God to men: 



The Builder of this universe was wise, 

 He formed all souls, all systems, planets, particles; 



The plan he formed his worlds and Moiis by, 

 Was Heavens! was thy small nine-and-thirty articles! 



