Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTEROne by one the sands are flowing
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Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to 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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No star is lost once we have seen
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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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See how time makes all grief decay.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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Each man has some part to play.
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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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