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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 17.

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HYPOCRISY.

By Joanna Baillie

THINK'ST thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skin in fortune's sun, And sting the soul!—Aye, till its healthful frame Is changed to secret, festering, sore disease, So deadly is the wound.—Joanna Baillie.