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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

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Guided and aided by their holy will,
Jove and Apollo, may they guard me still,
My course of youth in safety to fulfil;
Free from all evil, happy with my wealth,
In joyous easy years of peace and health.