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Small leisure have the poor for grief.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
Journalist
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Truth is one And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.
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What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
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Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn
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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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Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame Buy cheap, sell dear eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want Pay tithes for soul-insurance keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant
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What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?
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Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!
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Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!
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With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
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What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? Nay, none of these! Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night To do His will!
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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.
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For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.
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Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.
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What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.
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Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
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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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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
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