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First Line: With a forehead serene and the gait of a queen
Last Line: To receive truth's supreme accolade.
Subject(s): Friendship


WITH a forehead serene and the gait of a queen
She is threading life's sorrowful maze.
Of her blessed evangel is none other sign
Than that lift of her head, and a courage divine
In the exquisite calm of her gaze.

But to walk where she leads is to hold by high creeds;
To feel stirrings of wings in the soul;
To make spurs of one's fetters and moons of midnights;
Of dim deserts make Pisgahs, of falls eagle-flights
That shall sweep at one stretch to the goal.

And remembering her is afar to recur
To vows made by her side unafraid;
To grow strong with her strength; to be girt with her grace,
And to pattern one's soul by the look in her face,
To receive Truth's supreme accolade.





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