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<h2> LOVE’S COURAGE </h2>
<p>Courage have I to face all bitter things,<br/>
That start out darkly from the rugged path,<br/>
Leading to life’s achievement; not God’s wrath<br/>
Would sit so heavy when my lady sings.<br/>
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I did not know what life meant till I felt<br/>
Her hand clasp mine in compact to the end;<br/>
Till her dear voice said, “See, I am your friend!”<br/>
And at her feet, amazed, my spirit knelt.<br/>
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And yet I spoke but hoarsely then my thought,<br/>
I groped amid a thousand forces there;<br/>
Her understanding all my meaning caught,<br/>
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It was illumined in her atmosphere.<br/>
She read it line by line, and then there fell<br/>
The curtain on the shrine-and it is well.<br/></p>
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