The Intellectual Observer, Volume 10Groombridge and Sons, 1867 |
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Page 333 - For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
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