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Show ggj" By the Light of the Years T HAVE learned these things by the light of the lr I yearS' f Uke a child connin& over his books' .QVN That the darkness outside of my window at night ulf Is never as dark as it looks, And if I but run out and search, I can find tfeo Some little light, Steady and kind. I have learned that Hope is the white-feathered bird H' That sings all day on its nest, vSj! That Fear is the crouching beaft that comes MPm To tear the bird from its neft. . V 1 Ml I have learned to close the door on Fear I p BwU After many and many a year. JS. W rlffiJ' 1 have patiently learned that a wil1 ceasc vmWiwi ts11 comes slowly and late 1 0 And that there will drift down to sleepless eyes - J WSiM Loft sleep at laSt, if I wait. - So wh7 should I worry and fret and cry, Knowing these things pass by. JMz |