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DESTINY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: LIKE WINDS OR WATERS WERE HER WAYS
Last Line: BUT CRAVING FOR ITS SISTER SOUL.
Subject(s): FATE; DESTINY;
LIKE winds or waters were her ways:
The flowing tides, the airy streams,
Are troubled not by any dreams;
They know the circle of their days.

Like winds or waters were her ways:
They heed not immemorial cries;
They move to their high destinies
Beyond the little voice that prays.

She passed into her secret goal,
And left behind a soul that trod
In darkness, knowing not of God,
But craving for its sister soul.



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