Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul. Various

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      Whom no reward can ever bribe

      The guiltless to destroy.

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      I hold it as a changeless law,

      From which no soul can sway or swerve,

      We have that in us which will draw

      Whate'er we need or most deserve.

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      BE TRUE THYSELF

      Thou must be true thyself

      If thou the truth wouldst teach;

      Thy soul must overflow if thou

      Another's soul wouldst reach.

      It needs the overflow of heart

      To give the lips full speech.

      Think truly, and thy thoughts

      Shall the world's famine feed;

      Speak truly, and each word of thine

      Shall be a fruitful seed;

      Live truly, and thy life shall be

      A great and noble creed.

      —Horatius Bonar.

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      Keep pure thy soul!

      Then shalt thou take the whole

      Of delight;

      Then, without a pang,

      Thine shall be all of beauty whereof the poet sang—

      The perfume and the pageant, the melody, the mirth,

      Of the golden day and the starry night;

      Of heaven and of earth.

      Oh, keep pure thy soul!

      —Richard Watson Gilder.

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      Somebody did a golden deed;

      Somebody proved a friend in need;

      Somebody sang a beautiful song;

      Somebody smiled the whole daylong;

      Somebody thought, "'Tis sweet to live."

      Somebody said, "I'm glad to give";

      Somebody fought a valiant fight;

      Somebody lived to shield the right;

      Was it you?

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      Then draw we nearer, day by day,

      Each to his brethren, all to God;

      Let the world take us as she may,

      We must not change our road;

      Not wondering, though in grief, to find

      The martyr's foe still keep her mind;

      But fixed to hold Love's banner fast,

      And by submission win at last.

      —John Keble.

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      Knowing, what all experience serves to show,

      No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

      —James Russell Lowell.

      

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      Be no imitator; freshly act thy part;

      Through this world be thou an independent ranger;

      Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart

      Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

      —From the Persian.

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      None but one can harm you,

      None but yourself who are your greatest foe,

      He that respects himself is safe from others,

      He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

      —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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      And some innative weakness there must be

      In him that condescends to victory

      Such as the present gives, and cannot wait—

      Safe in himself as in a fate.

      —James Russell Lowell.

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      To be the thing we seem,

      To do the thing we deem

      Enjoined by duty;

      To walk in faith, nor dream

      Of questioning God's scheme

      Of truth and beauty.

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      To live by law, acting the law we live by without fear,

      And, because right is right, to follow right,

      Were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.

      —Alfred Tennyson.

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      Though love repine, and reason chafe,

      There came a voice without reply:

      "'Tis man's perdition to be safe,

      When for the truth he ought to die."

      —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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      Whatever you are—be that;

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