Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERJoy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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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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Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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One by one the sands are flowing
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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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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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