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The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
Journalist
Lawyer
Poet
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
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Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
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Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care.
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
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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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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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Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So Bonnie Doon but tarry Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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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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Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!
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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 airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.
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And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!
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And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!
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