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First Line: Though floods shall fail, and empty holes
Last Line: Would walk with me from day to day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism


THOUGH floods shall fail, and empty holes
Gape for the great bright eyes of seas,
And fires devour stone walls and trees --
Thou, soul of mine, dost think to live
Safe in thy light, and laugh at these?

Thy bravery outwears all heat
And cold, all steel, all brass and stone;
When Time has mixed my flesh and bone
With rocks and roots of common plants --
Thy shining life will not be done.

Thou hast two children: one called Hope,
The other Doubt, who will not play,
And drives that brighter child away:
How sweet this life, if Hope alone
Would walk with me from day to day!





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