Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. by Laman Blanchard. In Two Volumes |
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PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN. |
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PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN.
Over that pallid face were wroughtThe characters of painful thought;
But on that lip, and in that eye,
Were patience, faith, and piety.
The hope that is not of this earth,
The peace that has in pain its birth;
As if, in the tumult of this life,
Its sorrow, vanity, and strife,
Had been but as the lightning's shock,
Shedding rich ore upon the rock:
Though in the trial scorched and riven,
The gold it wins, is gold from heaven.
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