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Mary Gardiner Brainard Quotes

d. 1905 United States

Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) was an American writer of religious poetry. She was the niece of poet John Gardiner Calkins Brainard.

United States
19th-century poets
Poets

Also known as: Brainard, Mary Gardiner

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I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

Not knowing (1869)

That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;
But I ’ve left the Past in God’s keeping,—the Future
His mercy shall clear;
And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Gardiner Brainard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.