One by one the sands are flowing
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERBe strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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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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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
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Dreams grow holy put in action.
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No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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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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