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R. J. T. JEFFERSON.

Of Sorrow, Rage, or Joy!
And so, to this behoof,
The golden threads shall yet unwind
On Nature's loom.
The warp shall yet be woven with the woof—
The heavens their sweetest joys shall yet unbind,
To banish wretched Woe afar to his ancestral gloom

R. J. T. Jefferson.