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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never…
• Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
• I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
• And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
• Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
• So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

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