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Hanford Lennox Gordon

[Written in a friend’s book of autographs, 1876.]


Bear and forbear, I counsel thee,
  Forgive and be forgiven,
For Charity is the golden key
  That opens the gate of heaven.

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From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems | Written c. 1876

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