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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM CXXXV.

[Need from excess—excess from folly growing]

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

Need from excess—excess from folly growing,
Keeps Christie's hammer daily, going, going!
Ill-omen'd prelude! whose dire knell brings on
Profusion's last sad dying speech—“Gone! gone!”