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[1]

THE
MILLER
AND
HIS GOLDEN DREAM.

“With moderate blessings be content,
Nor idly grasp at every shade;
Peace, competence, a life well spent,
Are treasures that can never fade;
And he who weakly sighs for more—
—Augments his misery, not his store.”

BY THE AUTHOR OF
“THE RUBY RING,” &c.

WELLINGTON, SALOP:
PRINTED BY AND FOR F. HOULSTON AND SON,
And sold by Scatcherd and Co. Ave-Maria Lane, London.

1822.

[Entered at Stationers’ Hall.]

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[3]

In the construction of the following little Poem,the Author has declined the aids of Genii, &c.—thepowerful auxiliaries of her two former works,—onthe belief that a moral truth requires littleof artificial embellishment to render it attractive.She presents therefore a simple unadorned taleto her young readers, as an experiment; not withouthope that their reception and approval of itmay be such, as to sanction future efforts, and toconfirm her in the propriety of her present opinion.

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[5]

THE
MILLER.

If, ’mid the passions of the breast,
There be one deadlier than the rest,
Whose poisonous influence would control
The generous purpose of the soul,
A cruel selfishness impart,
And harden, and contract the heart;
If such a passion be, the vice
Is unrelenting Avarice.
And would my youthful readers know
The features of this mortal foe,
The lineaments will hardly fail
To strike them in the following tale.
[6]
In England—but it matters not
...

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