I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERI do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
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Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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