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RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

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No more unto the stubborn heart

With gentle knocking shall He plead,

No more the mystic pity start,

For Christ twice dead is dead indeed.

So in the street I hear men say, Yet Christ is with me all the day.

��LAURENCE BINYON

870. Invocation to Touth

��then, as ever, like the wind at morning J Joyous, O Youth, in the aged world renew Freshness to feel the eternities around it,

Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew. The strong sun shines above thee : That strength, that radiance bring ! If Winter come to Winter, When shall men hope for Spring?

��871. World, le Nobler

WORLD, be nobler, for her sake ! If she but knew thee what thou art, What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done In thee, beneath thy daily sun,

Know'st thou not that her tender heart For pain and very shame would break? O World, be nobler, for her sake!

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