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His partners at the whist-club said
That he was faultless in his dealings.

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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Some lie beneath the churchyard stone,
And some before the speaker.

I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,—
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.

And oh! I shall find how, day by day,
All thoughts and things look older;
How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay,
And the heart of friendship colder.

I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.

And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man's belief is bad,
It will not be improved by burning.

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