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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.