"A Prayer"Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me ( Read more... )

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If You Have Made Gentler the Churlish World

If you have spoken something beautiful,
Or touched the dead canvas to life,
Or made the cold stone to speak--
You who know the secret heart of beauty;
If you have done one thing
That has made gentler the churlish world,
Though mankind pass you by,
And feed and clothe you grudgingly--
Though the world starve you,
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