"Neatly secured from being soil’d or torn, Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn, A book (to please us at a tender age ’Tis call’d a book, though but a single page) Presents the prayer the Saviour deign’d to teach, Which children use, and parsons—when they preach."
Hornbook

January 1, 1970

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