The Knickerbocker/Volume 13/Number 5/Adversity

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ADVERSITY.

Adversity, misunderstood, becomes a double curse;
Her chastening hand improves the good, but makes the wicked worse,
Thus clay more obdurate becomes, to the fierce flame consigned;
While gold in that red ordeal melts, but melts to be refined.

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