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golden rules in rhyme.
If comes a blow, from friend or foe, With earnest good avenge it, "The sandal-tree, with fragrant sigh, Perfumes the axe that rends it."
Be like the sun, whose eye of joy Ne'er on a shadow lay, love!Be like the rill that singeth still, Whate'er be in its way, love
Ne'er waste your heart in vain regret, Tho' youth be dimm'd by care; "For lovelier flowers than summer wreathes May twine in winter's hair."
With childlike trust look forward still, For Heaven is always near; "Full oft our very fear of ill Exceeds the ill we fear."
Nor question Fate! the world-ship still Under seal'd orders sailing; 'Twere best the great Commander's skill To trust with faith unfailing.
