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POEMS.
THE BEST MEDICINES.

Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.


SIN.

Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.