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First Line: Strength and life have fled afar
Last Line: Eased my heart of tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


STRENGTH and Life have fled afar,
Friends are not, and Mirth is dead;
Gone is pride that erstwhile fed
Faith is my frail star.

Once I hailed a friend in Truth
Ere I knew her changing guise;
When the scales fell from mine eyes,
Ah, the bitter ruth!

Everlasting is her pow'r,
And all men that pass her by
Unperceiving, fruitlessly
Live their little hour.

God doth speak and man that hears
Needs must answer; all of good
Life hath given me is the flood
Eased my heart of tears.





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