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EPIGRAM by SAMUEL BISHOP

First Line: NEED FROM EXCESS - EXCESS FROM FOLLY GROWING
Last Line: PROFUSION'S LAST SAD DYING SPEECH—'GONE! GONE!'
Subject(s): TIME;

NEED from excess—excess from folly growing,
Keeps Christie's hammer daily, going, going!
Ill-omened prelude! whose dire knell brings on
Profusion's last sad dying speech—'Gone! gone!'



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