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spirit of his temper, and taught it to follow in gentler, softer, and sweeter murmurs.
Hope now conducted Alphonso to the throne of Learning. She smiled as he humbly kneeled at her footstool, and taking a laurel from the hand of the delighted and willing Genius, she crowned the brow of the elated Alphonso. Fancy for a moment deserted the side of Genius and hovered over his laurel-crowned brow; then, clapping her wings in delight, she again resumed her former station. Learning stretched forth her hand to him; "Arise," said she, "you are destined by fate to fill this long vacant seat." Alphonso kissed the outstretched hand, and gratefully took his seat at the side of Learning.
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