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INWARDNESS.
Pure, peaceful hearts that are content to prayIn simple faith, though dim and veiled be sight,
Their humble prayers for grace to walk aright
Through all the little dangers of the day—
That only ask to see a little way,
Weaving no wide-meant, world-embracing schemes,
No vast conceptions, no far-reaching dreams;—
These do not ask the issue of the fray,
Happy if each is steadfast to his post,
Careless of all without, if pure within:
And oft maybe they deem the battle lost,
Wielding the while world-shaping powers that win,
Whose fountain head is the heart's innermost,
Which they grow near who grow away from sin.
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