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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hrough the deep ;Love from its awful throne of patient powerIn the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery, steep,And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs,And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance—These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destructions strength ;And if, with infirm hand, Eternity,Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length,These are the spells by which to reassumeAn empire oer the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power which seems omnipotent;To love and bear; to hope till Hope createsFrom its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to cl.ange, nor falter, nor repent:—This, like thy glory. Titan, is to beGood, great, and joyous, beautiful and free:This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. —Pfifmeihem Unbmind^ Act Vr \
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