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ure in these islands his debtor— well, I say, might jour 

 noble old Carljle 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 ^ons by, 

 Wa8— Heavens !— was thy small nine- and- thirty articles! 



