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[Poems by Willis in] The ladies' casket

containing a gem, together with its sentiment, and a poetical description, for each day in the week, and each month in the year

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Idocrase.—HONESTY AND STRENGTH.

TUESDAY.

Thou hast the secret strange
To read that hidden book, the human heart;
Thou hast the ready writer's practised art;
Thou hast the thought to range
The broadest circles Intellect ever ran.—