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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
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Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.
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Despair is infidelity and death.
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Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.
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For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold Slaves rise up men the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
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And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!
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Nothing before, nothing behind The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
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