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The Saddest Hour.

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The saddest hour of anguish and of loss          Is not that season of supreme despair          When we can find no least light anywhere              To gild the dread, black shadow of the Cross;              Not in that luxury of sorrow when          We sup on salt of tears, and drink the gall          Of memories of days beyond recall -              Of lost delights that cannot come again.          But when, with eyes that are no longer wet,              We look out on the great, wide world of men,              And, smiling, lean toward a bright to-morrow,          Then backward shrink, with sudden keen regret,          To find that we are learning to forget:              Ah! then we face the saddest hour of sorrow.

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