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(2) [centered]

"Be calm in arguing, for fierce^ss [fierceness] makes
Error a fault, & truth discourtesy:
Why shd [should] I feel another man's mistakes -
More than his sickness or his poverty?
In love, I sh'd [should]; but anger is not love;
Nor wisdom neither – therefore gently move."

~ (3) [centered]

Book of Wisdom.

Pers. [Person] trav. [travelling] thro. [through] city continued
call. [calling] out – Who have 'lixir [elixir] of life?
Daugh. [Daughter] Rab. [Rabbi] Joda heard told
'dad' – Call in. What is that
Elixir of life thou Sellist? – He
ans'd [answered] – "What man is he that loveth life"
This is t. [the] Elixir – & is found
in the mouth of man!!

~ [centered]

[Written in ink vertically down page]

Finished; July: 16. 1845 ~