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Occasional verse, moral and sacred

Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet]

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A Thought from Horace, Book III. Ode xvii. Line 41.

Who much desire, of course will want still more:
Heaven grants an ample, tho' a scanty store.
'Tis not then what we want, but what is giv'n;
And thanks for this is what is due to Heav'n,