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by Unknown

Both, children of the same dear God,

Prove title to your heirship vast

By record of a well-fill’d past;

A heritage, it seems to me,

Well worth a life to hold in fee.

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ACT FOR TRUTH.

HE busy world shoves angrily aside

The man who stands with arms akimbo set,