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title: 'Mistakes: A Poem, Delivered Before the Enosinian and Philophrenian Societies of Columbian College, on their Anniversary Celebration, April 12, 1860'
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authors:
- 'Byron Sunderland'
date: 1860-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Poetry'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 10'
- 'James 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/sunderland-1860-mistakes-a-poem-delivered-before-the-enosinian-and-philophrenian-societies-of-columbian-college-on-their-anniversary-celebration-april-12-1860
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# Mistakes: A Poem, Delivered Before the Enosinian and Philophrenian Societies of Columbian College, on their Anniversary Celebration, April 12, 1860

Byron Sunderland's 1860 poem 'Mistakes' wryly surveys varieties, causes, and consequences of human errors—social, moral, domestic—delivered at Columbian College.

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