How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. (Thomas Hood)

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

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