THE TRUE RICHES;

OR,

The Poor Rich, and The Rich Poor.

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* A glad New Year, tho’ it may be thy last,
We cannot tell ; God’s ways are hidden deep.
We only say, as in the years now past,
They are well kept whom God vouchsafes to keep.”

AOLD! diamonds! pearls! rubies!
| How much do men endure to seek
for these, with only the hope of
finding them at last! Hard toil,
harder fare, with hardened hearts, they
often have in the search; their day-dreams
are full of their prospects of success, their
night-visions crown them with it; yet, alas!
they awake to find “’tis but a dream.”
Urged on by a restless anxiety to find, how

many “leave the happy village of content,”
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