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by Unknown

If from the bowers of ease they fled,

To seek affliction’s humble shed;

If grandeur’s guilty bribe they spurned,

And home to virtue’s cot returned,—

These feet with angel wings shall vie,

And tread the palace of the sky!

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PLEDGE WITH WINE.

(A TEMPERANCE SELECTION.)