"Oh never yet did Peace her chaplet twine, To lay upon base Mammon’s sordid shrine, Where Earth’s most precious things are bought and sold; Thrown on that pile, the "pearl of price" would be Despised, because unfit for merchantry."

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Children's authors19th-century poets from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 19th centuryPoets from New York City
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Peace", st. 4, in John A. Clark (ed.) The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual (Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1838) p. 144. The poem's epigraph is from Psalm 29, 11: "The Lord will bless his people with peace.