Last Verses. Susan Coolidge

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СКАЧАТЬ THE PORCH OF LIFE

       THE LIGHTHOUSE

       ONCE AND FOREVER

       LIGHTS

       ON THE LAWN

       IF ONLY

       PRELUDE

       WHOM NO MAN HATH HIRED

       ON EASTER EVEN

       PALM SUNDAY

       THE PASCHAL FEAST

       A NEW YEAR PRAYER

       HOW SHALL I PRAY?

       GOOD-NIGHT

       A SPRING PARABLE

       “THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE THE STRONG MOUNTAINS”

       LIVING OR DEAD

       A MORNING SONG

       THE STONE OF THE SEPULCHRE

       TOO LITTLE AND TOO MUCH

       THE MESSENGER WITH THE BOW-STRING

       RELEASED

       A PARADISE SONG

       LITTLE BY LITTLE

       TWO YEARS

       TEMPERED

       VIRGINIA

       LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS

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      LAST VERSES

HELEN KELLER

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      BEHIND her triple prison-bars shut in

      She sits, the whitest soul on earth to-day.

      No shadowing stain, no whispered hint of sin,

      Into that sanctuary finds the way.

      There enters only clear and proven truth

      Apportioned for her use by loving hands

      And winnowed from all knowledge of all lands

      To satisfy her ardent thirst of youth.

      Like a strange alabaster mask her face,

      Rayless and sightless, set in patience dumb,

      Until like quick electric currents come

      The signals of life into her lonely place;

      Then, like a lamp just lit, an inward gleam

      Flashes within the mask’s opacity,

      The features glow and dimple suddenly,

      And fun and tenderness and sparkle seem

      To irradiate the lines once dull and blind,

      While the white slender fingers reach and cling

      With quick imploring gestures, questioning

      The mysteries and the meanings:—to her mind

      The world is not the sordid world we know;

      It is a happy and benignant spot

      Where kindness reigns, and jealousy is not,

      And men move softly, dropping as they go

      The golden fruit of knowledge for all to share.

      And Love is King, and Heaven is very near,

      And God to whom each separate soul is dear

      Makes fatherly answer to each whispered prayer.

      Ah, little stainless soul, shut in so close,

      May never hint of doubt creep in to be

      A shadow on the calm security

      Which wraps thee, as its fragrance wraps a rose.

“A CLOUD OF WITNESSES”

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