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Married a young and very handsome wife.
And now to him whom these initials claim,
Some live to bear their father's name;
(2lines left out) by mistake
Each much deplored, yet lively hope they gave
Alas! I'm here, March 1st in forty six,
Doomed with the world & worldly men to mix.
Found corrected on page 30)
T.B.

We are not astonished (says Confucius)
that the wise walk more slowly in their road
to virtue than fools in their passage to vice;
since passion drags us along, while wisdom only
points the way.