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The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.
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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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
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Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!
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Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
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Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!
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No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.
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The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
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Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.
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Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.
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Romance is always young.
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Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.
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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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Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
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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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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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Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.
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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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The still, sad music of humanity.
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