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A memorial volume of sacred poetry

by the late Sir John Bowring. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author, by Lady Bowring

Bowring, John (1792-1872)

SACRED POETRY.

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Lines addressed to E. B.

In this busy world, where the trial and test
Is to do what we can,—ever doing our best;
We may think of that teacher, the best of the good,
Whose sweetest reward was, “She did what she could.”