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1807–1892

LAYING UP TREASURE

John Greenleaf Whittier

Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth that kings Nor thieves can take away. When all the things

Thou tallest thine, goods, pleasures, honors fall, Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.

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