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TRUE STRENGTH.
Yes! we walk, Earth, uncertain and afraid,Encompassed round about with gloom and shade,
And still in sorrow and in shame we cry
“Out upon this abhorred uncertainty!”
But Oh! these wearying doubtings, this distrust,
While yet we are but dwellers in the Dust,
(While yet our Earthly journey we pursue)
Human misgivings, human faulterings too,
These prove our Strengths, our Sovereign Strengths, if these
Teach us to strive with outstretched hand to seize
On that Almightiest Rock of Aid above,
Which Mercy hath vouchsafed to us—and Love!
Yes! those who in the depth of self-distrust
Contemn their own vain powers, with scorn most just,
Shall find, 'mid all the griefs of mortal doom
That very helplessness and doubt become
The source of their most Kingly Strengths—if still
A sage and steadfast part they here fulfill!
Oh! what a solace shall the weary find,
Their minds reposing on the All-Knowing Mind!
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