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The wind that sighs before the dawn
Chases the gloom of night,
The curtains of the East are drawn,
And suddenly—'t is light.
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The love of the Right, tho' cast down, the hate of victorious Ill,
All are sparks from the central fire of a boundless beneficent will.
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Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound,
Young voices sing;
Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round,
For lo! 't is Spring!
Winter has passed with its sad funeral train,
And Love revives again.
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Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies.
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The world still needs
Its champion as of old, and finds him still.
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The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.
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Call no faith false which e'er hath brought
Relief to any laden life,
Cessation to the pain of thought,
Refreshment mid the dust of strife.
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The victories of Right
Are born of strife.
There were no Day were there no Night,
Nor, without dying, Life.
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To-day the many-hued anemone, Waving, expands within the rock-pools green, And swift transparent creatures of the sea Dart through the feathery sea-fronds, scarcely seen.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
January 23, 1833
Died:
November 12, 1907
(aged 74)
Bio:
Sir Lewis Morris was a Welsh academic and politician. He was also a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school.
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