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and couid fay with propriety, I have not alto- gether lived in vain!

8. The golden wedge of Ophir, and the diamond of Golconda, loft for a time their magic influence! Thepleafures of fenfuality were abforbed in the boundlefs profpe^l of in- eftimable treafures 1 treafures of eternal du- ration!

9. But alas! when the day of peace return- ed, pleafure tempted them with her golden wings! file fpread abroad her allurements, and many who had once feeii the vanity of earthly riches, were caught in her fnares, and loft fight of fubftantial felicity in the pur- fuit of fnadows 1

10. Let the children of poverty comfort themfelves, inafmuch as they are removed far from the fnares of the diffipated fons of vo- luptuoufnefs, whofe tents are furrounded by the harbingers of the king of terrors! who rideth on the pale horfe 1 and whofe name is death I