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Hope on! aye, though the happy laugh be dumb,
All the joy gone, and all the anguish come;
Though bitter disappointment, baffled strife,
Leave ye but laggards in the race of life;
Hope on! White day is born of sable night,
And from deep sorrow springeth dear delight.
Angels have knowledge of your cares and fears,
Angels are counting all your bitter tears.
Hope and pray on! patience and prayer are strong,
Stronger than strength of pain, and sting of wrong.
Fail not, and falter not; the pathway lies
Only through sorrow to the sinless skies;
Then, when the riddle of the world is read,
And hate and pain, and time and toil are dead,
Then shall ye learn the lesson of the years,
And wear the coronal Endurance wears.
All the joy gone, and all the anguish come;
Though bitter disappointment, baffled strife,
Leave ye but laggards in the race of life;
Hope on! White day is born of sable night,
And from deep sorrow springeth dear delight.
Angels have knowledge of your cares and fears,
Angels are counting all your bitter tears.
Hope and pray on! patience and prayer are strong,
Stronger than strength of pain, and sting of wrong.
Fail not, and falter not; the pathway lies
Only through sorrow to the sinless skies;
Then, when the riddle of the world is read,
And hate and pain, and time and toil are dead,
Then shall ye learn the lesson of the years,
And wear the coronal Endurance wears.
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