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Between ourselves and our desires, too oft, We build a wall impassable. We mar By futile artifice what honest skill In either would alone effect.—Straight on, And up the mountain, heavenwards aloft, Should be the chosen path; however far The goal may be; to reach it wants but will To trust in God, and prudent courage drawn From honourable purpose. Hard may be The track, and steep to climb, but walls are none To scale, nor ladders lack we, ’midst the chill Of mental Alps, but only eyes to see These words of truth light-written in the sun— “The path of duty aye runs up the hill.”
Between ourselves and our desires, too oft, We build a wall impassable. We mar By futile artifice what honest skill In either would alone effect.—Straight on, And up the mountain, heavenwards aloft, Should be the chosen path; however far The goal may be; to reach it wants but will To trust in God, and prudent courage drawn From honourable purpose. Hard may be The track, and steep to climb, but walls are none To scale, nor ladders lack we, ’midst the chill Of mental Alps, but only eyes to see These words of truth light-written in the sun— “The path of duty aye runs up the hill.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Calder Campbell (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 191 · printed citation: Calder Campbell · subject: DUTY
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