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Ev'n Them Who Kept Thy Truth So Pure Of Old, When All Our Fathers Worshipp'd Stocks And Stones.
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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- On the late Massacre in Piedmont
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