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 Photograph of a rare old painting by the Spanish artist, Herrera, and owned by Dr. Andrew Anderson of St. Augustine, Fla.

AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS

O thou, immortal father, Permit my spirit poor to rise with thine. Thou didst ascend, high Heaven's hero, From thy soft bed of prayer at Hippo, Centuries agone, Very Vandals storming thy gates the while.

Victor art thou still, and higher, More mighty, honored more.