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In kindly showers and sunshine bud
The branches of the dull gray wood;
Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks
The blue eye of the violet looks.
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God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.
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These children of the meadows, born
Of sunshine and of showers!
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore;
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For evermore!
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Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,
Through present wrong the eternal right;
And, step by step, since time began,
I see the steady gain of man;
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And light is mingled with the gloom,
And joy with grief;
Divinest compensations come,
Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom
In sweet relief.
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Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought,
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought.
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What! mothers from their children riven!
What! God's own image bought and sold!
Americans to market driven,
And bartered as the brute for gold!
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He wedded a wife of richest dower,
Who lived for fashion, as he for power.
Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow,
He watched a picture come and go:
And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes
Looked out in their innocent surprise.
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Let the thick curtain fall;
I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.
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Speed on the ship; — But let her bear
No merchandise of sin,
No groaning cargo of despair
Her roomy hold within;
No Lethean, drug for Eastern lands,
Nor poison-draught for ours;
But honest fruits of toiling hands
And Nature's sun and showers.
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For they the mind of Christ discern
Who lean, like John, upon His breast.
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O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
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All day the darkness and the cold
Upon my heart have lain,
Like shadows on the winter sky,
Like frost upon the pane.
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A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.
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Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.
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Falsehoods which we spurn today
Were the truths of long ago.
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If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it.
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The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,—flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.
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The outward wayward life we see,
The hidden springs we may not know—
It is not ours to separate
The tangled skein of will and fate.
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Again the blackbirds sing; the streams
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice.
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Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace;
East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;
Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good-will to man!
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Born:
December 17, 1807
Died:
September 7, 1892
(aged 84)
Bio:
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Known for:
Snow-Bound (1865)
Maud Muller (1865)
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