Poems of Power by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Do you know what makes sweet songs Ring for me above earth's strife? 'Tis the love, love, love, That you bring into my life, Oh the glory of the songs In the heart where love belongs! MISSION If you are sighing for a lofty work, If great ambitions dominate your mind, Just watch yourself and see you do not shirk The common little ways of being kind. If you are dreaming of a future goal, When, crowned with glory, men shall own your power, Be careful that you let no struggling soul Go by unaided in the present hour. If you are moved to pity for the earth, And long to aid it, do not look so high, You pass some poor, dumb creature faint with thirst - All life is equal in the eternal eye. If you would help to make the wrong things right, |
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