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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

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Cease Christian Fight Fighting Prayer Restrain
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Assurance Believe Even Happy Heard Make Petition Prayer Proof
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Game King Ply Subject War Wise
And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Address Anxious Become Change Conscious Feed Gesture Grace Guilt Impressed Messenger Much Tender
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Inverted Ruler Winter Year

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