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THREE GOOD THINGS by CLYDE MCGEE

First Line: I THINK I LIKE THAT HOUR BEST
Last Line: BEAUTY, PEACE, AND VICTORY.
Subject(s): LIFE;

I think I like that hour best
When sun is sinking in the west,
And fretful cares with day depart
And evening's quiet fills my heart;

Again I prize those moments most
When life draws up his rebel host,
Armed to crush me, wound me through,
And I face him, conquer, and subdue;

Or, when on lonely steeps of pain,
The struggle fruitless, watching vain,
A gleam of light breaks suddenly,
And I a touch of beauty see.

These three good things life holds for me,
Beauty, Peace, and Victory.



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