OUT OF TRIBULATION.
Dost thou feel tho slinga and arrows By outrageous fortune cast ? Do they cloud thy sky with sorrows, And embitter all thy past? Art thou arrowing we.ary hearted With the strife that will not cease? Dost thou think thy soul hath parted, For all time, with joy and peace? Think not thus. Though toils environ, Others have the same withstood ; 'Ti» by constant blows that iron Grows more powerful for good. Every tree is fuller fruited For the wound of pruning-sheers ; Every tree is firmer routed, For the tempests of the years. In the fire that burns thee sorely Ba indeed a fiery cros*, It refines thee, slowly, snrely, Cleansing all thy gold of dross. And the perfect man is builded Faster in the evil day ; Every loss of cornice gilded Every care a strong«r stay. So that, though the world grows colder, And thy bosom friind.s be less, Thou of every true beholder Shall increase in comeliness. So that, out of tribulation, Thou shall have more perfect light, And a fuller compensation For the darkness of the night. — The Quiver.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2248, 4 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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184OUT OF TRIBULATION. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2248, 4 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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