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KINDLINESS.
Far more than many a lawless life may guess,
Pure kindliness hath a spell they only know
Whose hearts, however assailed by care and woe,
Have cause its sweet talismanic worth to bless!
It looks at first a power of feeble stress,
Yet fights with dauntless fortitude blow for blow,
Until some towering human fault lies low,
Beneath this delicate spell of kindliness!
Pure kindliness hath a spell they only know
Whose hearts, however assailed by care and woe,
Have cause its sweet talismanic worth to bless!
It looks at first a power of feeble stress,
Yet fights with dauntless fortitude blow for blow,
Until some towering human fault lies low,
Beneath this delicate spell of kindliness!
Thus, when the radiant spear of Perseus leapt
Against that wallowing bulk of scaly hide,
It seemed like a reed by contrast, and as firm ...
But when with gradual surge the sea had crept
About Andromeda's rock, its falling tide
Bore slowly off the monstrous, massacred worm!
Against that wallowing bulk of scaly hide,
It seemed like a reed by contrast, and as firm ...
But when with gradual surge the sea had crept
About Andromeda's rock, its falling tide
Bore slowly off the monstrous, massacred worm!
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