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CHRISTIAN GELLERT'S LAST CHRISTMAS.
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he had this verse placed upon it as an inscription:

"Accept God's gifts with resignation,
Content to lack what thou hast not:
 In every lot there's consolation;
There's trouble, too, in every lot."