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THE CENTURY OF LIFE
THE POWER OF COMPANY
Behold the water’s way,—on iron red When it falls hissing, not a trace remains, Yet tis the same that on the lotus shines, A dewy thing like pearls,—yea, pearl indeed Turns when the oyster-shell receives and heaven To those rain-bringing stars their hour has given. High virtue, vice or inconspicuous mean
- Tis company that moulds in things or men.
THE THREE BLESSINGS
He is a son whose noble deeds and high His loving father’s heart rejoice;
She is a wife whose only jewellery Is her dear husband’s joy and bliss;
He the true friend whose actions are the same
In peaceful days or hours of bale and shame; These three who wins, finds earth his Paradise.
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