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In Proverbs, &c.
The power of Thought in Proverbs!—oftentimesWe find its glittering essence centred there,
All crystallized, as if indeed it were
A bright and flawless diamond.—Silly Rhymes
Which oft we hear repeated are not dross
Entirely,—here and there rare pearls of thought
Appear upon their surface, genius-wrought;
Had they not been, we must have borne a loss.
O mighty power of Thought, it may not be
Within the sphere of any man to find
Thought undiscovered by a brother-mind,
Though deep and boundless is thy shoreless sea:—
And yet thy potent pathway is the groove
In which, by thee propelled, the change-girt world doth move.
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