Poems of home and country Also, Sacred and Miscellaneous Verse |
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THE SEAL ONCE LAID ON PLIANT WAX. |
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THE SEAL ONCE LAID ON PLIANT WAX.
ADDRESSED TO A TEACHER.
The seal, once laid on pliant wax,Stamps its own image, cancelled never;
The teacher's lineaments on the soul
Their vivid impress leave forever.
Lay careful hand on head and heart
While waits the youth at life's fair portal;
So shall your work, in beauty wrought,
Be beauty, stamped with life immortal.
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