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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 9. THE GUIDING HAND, by                    
First Line: Nothing, friends, is more beautiful to me
Last Line: And proves that love, when true, has strength to stay.
Subject(s): Hands; Love


Nothing, friends, is more beautiful to me
Than love which weathered all the storms of life
And still sails smoothly on a pleasant sea,
Nor dreads the spots with storms and billows rife.
For, like a ship with white, outstanding sail,
Timbered with oak and sturdy, well-wrought keel,
It fears not, cares not, for the fiercest gale
When love, its guiding hand, is at the wheel.

No fog shall cloud its glistening, shining wake,
No storms shall bend each sturdy, knotted mast.
No rocks nor shoal their toll of lives shall take,
It bids defiance to the icy blast,
And like a white-winged bird of peace it goes
From port to port, and in a quiet way
It spreads its sweetness like a blushing rose,
And proves that love, when true, has strength to stay.





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