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The Amaranth

Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte]

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30.

Good turns of friends we scribble on the sand,
But injuries engrav'd on marble stand .
 

Kempisii dictum commune. “Beneficia pulveri; si quid mali patimur, marmori insculpimus.”