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Sarah Doudney Quotes

1841–1926 England

Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford) was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter.

England
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Hymnwriters
Novelists
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Also known as: Doudney, Sarah

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But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.

And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."

I send thee pansies while the year is young,
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
The longings after something lost,
The spirit’s yearning cry,
The strivings after better hopes,—
These things can never die.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Doudney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.