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HYMN to CONTENT.


——————————— natura beatis
Omnibus eſſe dedit, ſi quis cognoverit uti.
Claudian.


O Thou, the Nymph with placid eye!
O ſeldom found, yet ever nigh!
Receive my temperate vow:
Not all the ſtorms that ſhake the pole
Can e'er diſturb thy halcyon ſoul,
And ſmooth unalter'd brow.

O come, in ſimpleſt veſt array'd,

With all thy ſober cheer diſplay'd

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