Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.John Greenleaf Whittier
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time.
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Our fellow-countrymen in chains Slaves - in a land of light and law Slaves - crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storms of Freedom's war.
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But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own.
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
John Greenleaf Whittier
To worship rightly is to love each other, each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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