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The down that smoothes the great man's anxious bed,
Was gather'd from a quiet poor man's shed:
Content and peace are found in mean estate,
And Jacob's dreams on Jacob's pillow wait .

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So Tekoa's Swain, by no vain glories led,
Nurtur'd his herds with leaves, and humbly fed .
 

“And Jacob took the stones of that place and put them for his pillows.” Gen. C. xxxviii, V. 2.

Amos C. vii, V. 14.