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First Line: Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow
Last Line: Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow.
Subject(s): Haste; Reform And Reformers


Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow --
Good things come and bad things go.
Try to sweep the clouds away,
Try to speed the flowers of May,
Hurry on the ocean's tide,
Bid the mountains run and hide,
This achieve, but no one can
Haste the processes of man,
Gather in and take control
Of the mighty human soul,
Bend its action to his will,
Bid it hasten or lie still,
Cleanse it from the smudge of wrong,
Make it beautiful and strong,
Cause the blessedness to come
Of the fair millennium.
He to whom a thousand years
Circling vastly through the spheres
Pass as flies a summer's day,
He alone has valid sway,
He alone is artisan
Of the processes of man;
Patient, patient, endless calm,
Under His almighty arm
Good things come and bad things go,
Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow.





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