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NOT ALL IN VAIN.
Not all in vain
The lightning and the thunder and the rain!
Without the Winter's sufferance and the snows,
The earth uneath might bear the lily and the rose.
The lightning and the thunder and the rain!
Without the Winter's sufferance and the snows,
The earth uneath might bear the lily and the rose.
Not all in vain,
Poet, for thee the stress of heart and brain!
'Tis from the opposing shock of Right and Wrong
The electric flash proceeds that stirs the seeds of song.
Poet, for thee the stress of heart and brain!
'Tis from the opposing shock of Right and Wrong
The electric flash proceeds that stirs the seeds of song.
Not all in vain
Life's seeding-stage of unenlightened pain!
Without its chastening stress, unfit, sad soul,
Wert thou to be made one with the Undifferenced Whole.
Life's seeding-stage of unenlightened pain!
Without its chastening stress, unfit, sad soul,
Wert thou to be made one with the Undifferenced Whole.
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