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Virtue’s achievement, Folly’s crime,
Whate’er of guilt or good the past has known,
Not e’en the Sire of all things, mighty Time,
Hath power to change, or make the deed undone.

— Abraham Moore The Odes of Pindar (1822)

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O’er woes long wept Oblivion softly lays
Her shadowy veil.

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And Wealth, more bright with Virtue joined,
Brings golden Opportunity.

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The lofty lucre of renown.

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Her lakes are oceans, every stream a bay,
Wide through her frame its branching artery throws:
Her mountains kiss the moon: her sapient sway
A beauteous belt hath wrought, whose ties enclose
Tribes without end, realm after realm embraced
In Freedom's opening arms, the savage and the waste.

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