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Blind Sorrow

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"My life is drear; walking I labour sore;         The heart in me is heavy as a stone;     And of my sorrows this the icy core:         Life is so wide, and I am all alone!"     Thou did'st walk so, with heaven-born eyes down bent         Upon the earth's gold-rosy, radiant clay,     That thou had'st seen no star in all God's tent         Had not thy tears made pools first on the way.     Ah, little knowest thou the tender care         In a love-plenteous cloak around thee thrown!     Full many a dim-seen, saving mountain-stair         Toiling thou climb'st--but not one step alone!     Lift but thy languid head and see thy guide;         Let thy steps go in his, nor choose thine own;     Then soon wilt thou, thine eyes with wonder wide,         Cry, Now I know I never was alone!

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