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    Watt's Songs Against Evil
    Watt's Songs Against Evil
    Watt's Songs Against Evil
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    Watt's Songs Against Evil

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Watt's Songs Against Evil - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Watt's Songs Against Evil, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Watt's Songs Against Evil

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: September 26, 2011 [EBook #37542]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WATT'S SONGS AGAINST EVIL ***

      Produced by Larry B. Harrison, and the Archives and Special

      Collections, University Libraries, Ball State University

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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      Watt's Songs

      AGAINST EVIL

      McLOUGHLIN BROS., Publishers,

      NEW YORK

      WATTS' DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS.

      AGAINST PRIDE IN CLOTHES.

      Why should our garments, made to hide

      Our parents' shame, provoke our pride?

      The art of dress did ne'er begin

      Till Eve our mother learnt to sin.

      When first she put the covering on,

      Her robe of innocence was gone;

      And yet her children vainly boast

      In the sad marks of glory lost.

      How proud we are! how

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