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Epigram On The Many Violent Disputes Among The Preachers Of The Gospel

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The labourers in the vineyard toil     (So numerous are their creeds)     Far less to cultivate the soil,     Than break each others' heads.          *        *        *        *        *     'Write epigrams! why, Sir, there's nothing in it.     I would be bound the merest scribbler could             To write one in a minute.'     No doubt you could but then there would             Indeed, be nothing in it.          *        *        *        *        *     The ambitious rage of Russia nought controls,     With her vast empire she'd unite the Poles.

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