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A book for boys and girls

or, Country Rhimes for Children. By J. B. [John Bunyan]

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Comparison.

This Candle is an Emblem of that Light,
Our Gospel gives in this our darksome night.
The Fly a lively Picture is of those
That hate, and do this Gospel light oppose.
At last the Gospel doth become their snare,
Doth them with burning hands in peices tear.