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  In want they pine,
  With wealth untold;
  Hearts warm with wine,
  And yet so cold !
  Refined are they —
  Yet what alloy !
  Pleasure and play,
  And yet no joy !
  Glitter and show —
  No beam from heaven;
  Can greater woe
  By death be given?
  The pastor Hold now joined the group assembled on
the shore. Having been but a few years on the island,
he had never seen Godber, but he had learned to know
him through Maria, and therefore gave him a friendly
greeting.
  The house which had first received the strangers not
being large enough to accommodate them comfortably,
the pastor and other persons of the congregation offered
their own dwellings ; but as there was the same want
of space in all, a separation of the party seemed to be
necessary. Godber, however, proposed to furnish the
house formerly owned by his father, but now unoccu-