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Day unto day her dainty hands
Make Life's soiled temples clean,
And there's a wake of glory where
Her spirit pure hath been.
At midnight, thro' that shadow-land,
Her living face doth gleam;
The dying kiss her shadow, and
The Dead smile in their dream.

— Gerald Massey

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The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free.

The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above,
And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

This World; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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