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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS


_Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe._

POPE: Odyssey.

_But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things._