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Adversity misunderstood, Becomes a double curse: Her chastening hand improves the good, But makes the wicked worse. Thus clay more obdurate becomes, To the fierce flame consign’d; While gold in the red ordeal melts, But melts to be refin’d.
Adversity misunderstood, Becomes a double curse: Her chastening hand improves the good, But makes the wicked worse. Thus clay more obdurate becomes, To the fierce flame consign’d; While gold in the red ordeal melts, But melts to be refin’d.
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- C. C. Colton (identity unresolved)
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