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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

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We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.

Life's Mysteries; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

Yea, when mortality dissolves,
Shall I not meet thine hour unawed?
My house eternal in the heavens
Is lighted by the smile of God!

My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light.

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