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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]
Harte, Walter (1709-1774)

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CHRIST's PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
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THE ASCETIC,
  
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THE MEDITATION OF THOMAS A KEMPIS.
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CONTENTMENT, INDUSTRY, AND ACQUIESCENCE under the Divine Will:
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THE VISION OF DEATH.
  
THE COURTIER AND PRINCE:
  
THE ENCHANTED REGION:
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EULOGIUS:
  
MACARIUS:
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BOETIUS:
  
Religious Melancholy, AN EMBLEMATICAL ELEGY.
  
MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST's Death and Passion.

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He, who adopts religions, wrong or right,
Is not a convert, but an hypocrite:
Him, seeming what he is not, man esteems;
God hates him, for he is not what he seems.
The bull-rush thus a specious out-side wears,
Smooth as the shining rind the poplar bears:
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But strip the cov'ring of its polish'd skin,
And all is insubstantial sponge within.
When not a whisper breathes upon the trees,
Unmov'd it stands, but bends with ev'ry breeze.
It boasts th'ablution of a silver flood,
But feeds on mire, and roots itself in mud.
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