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Lettered inside image: "95 | By the great edict, the divine decree, | Truth is deposited with man's last hour; | An honest hour, and faithful to her trust; | Truth, eldest daughter of the Deity; | Truth, of his council when he made the worlds, | Nor less when he shall judge the worlds he made; | Though silent long, and sleeping ne'er so sound | Smother'd with errors, and oppress'd with toys; | That heaven-commission'd hour no sooner calls, | But from her cavern in the soul's abyss, | Like him they fable under AEtna whelm'd, | *The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame; | Loudly convinces, and severely pains: | Dark demons I discharge, and hydra-stings; | The keen vibration of bright truth--is hell: | Just definition! though by schools untaught. | Ye deaf to truth! peruse this parson'd page, | And trust for once a prophet and a priest; | 'Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die'."; lower right: "inv & s | WB"