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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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XXII.

Many true counsels in this breast of mine
Lie buried: many a just and fair design,
But inefficient, indolent and weak;
I know my nature, and forbear to speak.