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Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread His ways, But when the spirit beckons— That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When we are simply good in thought, Howe’er we fail in action.
Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread His ways, But when the spirit beckons— That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When we are simply good in thought, Howe’er we fail in action.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 101; printed byline: Lowell; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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