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Epigram 4. - Circumstance.

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FROM THE GREEK.     A man who was about to hang himself,     Finding a purse, then threw away his rope;     The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf,     The halter found; and used it. So is Hope     Changed for Despair - one laid upon the shelf,     We take the other. Under Heaven's high cope     Fortune is God - all you endure and do     Depends on circumstance as much as you.

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