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THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN.

  Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face,  The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace.  "Our Father which"—the pronoun there is funny,  And shows the scribe to have addressed the money—  "Which art in Heaven"—an error this, no doubt:  The preposition should be stricken out.  Needless to quote; I only have designed  To praise the frankness of the pious mind  Which thought it natural and right to join,  With rare significancy, prayer and coin.