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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!”
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