![]() Why, men have lived to see a hundred years, Who have not known the rapture, joy, and strife Of my brief youth, its passion and its tears. |
![]() To her own door what thousands sought In wandering ways and did not find - Diversion and content of mind. |
![]() And God shall hear your words and make them true. |
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![]() The waters of love for relieving The sorrows of men. |
![]() Strike dumb the blatant, loud-mouthed atheist. |
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![]() Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. |
![]() One is beloved, and one is the lover, One gives and the other receives. |
![]() And prove me one too ready to believe, Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act, I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact. |
![]() Of wrong, ere choosing right; We should not call those years a waste Which led us to the light. |
![]() Just take it as part of your luck. Look it right square in the eyes, and say, "This is MY task, I'll do it to-day": Don't pass the buck. |
![]() For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. |
![]() He wakes to no new life above. |