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A Tale of Two Monkeys, and other stories

FORGIVE THE WRONG.

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Dear child, has some one done you ill?

Don’t hasten to resent it;

Oft those who seek a swift revenge

Find leisure to repent it.

Though anger loud for vengeance cries,

Again, again deny it;

Two wrongs will never make one right,

Howe’er you multiply it.

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