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 ON RECEIVING HIS LETTER

T night beneath the solemn stars I stood And watched the spacious loveliness, but yet Life's struggle and defeat could not forget, To-morrow's terrors trembled in my blood!

One came and said "Receive into thine heart Vast starry courage from the heavens above; In this great universe whose law is love Whose end is victory, thou hast thy part."