Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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Anand Thakur
Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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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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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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One by one the sands are flowing
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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True or false, that never dies
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One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going
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Hours are golden links, God’s token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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