The Service without Hope -
Is tenderest, I think -
Because ‘tis unsustained
By stint - Rewarded Work -

Has impetus of Gain -
And impetus of Goal -
There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until -

(1863/1945)

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To wait an Hour - is long -
If Love be just beyond -

To wait Eternity - is short -
If Love reward the end -

(1863/1945)

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At most he thinks or twitters softly, “Safe!
Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night be too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Robert Frost
(From Acceptance)

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