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Love, Time, And Will

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A soul immortal, Time, God everywhere,     Without, within -how can a heart despair,     Or talk of failure, obstacles, and doubt?     (What proofs of God?    The little seeds that sprout,     Life, and the solar system, and their laws.     Nature?    Ah, yes; but what was Nature's cause?)     All mighty words are short:    God, life, and death,     War, peace, and truth, are uttered in a breath.     And briefly said are love, and will, and time;     Yet in them lies a majesty sublime.     Love is the vast constructive power of space;     Time is the hour which calls it into place;     Will is the means of using time and love,     And bringing forth the heart's desires thereof.     The way is love, the time is now, and will     The patient method.    Let this knowledge fill     Thy consciousness, and fate and circumstance,     Environment, and all the ills of chance     Must yield before the concentrated might     Of those three words, as shadows yield to light.     Go, charge thyself with love; be infinite     And opulent with thy large use of it:     'Tis from free sowing that full harvest springs;     Love God and life and all created things.     Learn time's great value; to this mandate bow,     The hour of opportunity is Now,     And from thy will, as from a well-strung bow,     Let the swift arrows of thy wishes go.     Though sent into the distance and the dark,     The dawn shall prove thy arrows hit the mark.

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