Thoughts I Met on the Highway by Ralph Waldo Trine
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thousands now diseased and suffering. It would bring peace and joy to
thousands now unhappy and ill at ease. * * * * * I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny-- The waters know their own, and draw The brooks that spring in yonder height; So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight. The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. _John Burroughs_ * * * * * The thing that pays, and that makes for a well balanced, useful, and |
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