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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

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That happy man, my friend! that has through life
Pass'd unobnoxious to reproach or strife [OMITTED]
[OMITTED] Never existed yet; nor ever will!
A task there is which Jove could not fulfil,—
Infinite power and wisdom, both combin'd,
Would not avail to satisfy mankind.