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Each soul, alone unto herself, must bear The heartache out of which man wins despair Or hope according to his faculty. Nathless one thing is certain; who hath known Truth, beauty, goodness, shining in their sphere, Shall not be lost through any lesser lure. On black tempestuous waves he may be thrown; Yet to the right port shall he surely steer, And God Himself shall make his doing pure.
Each soul, alone unto herself, must bear The heartache out of which man wins despair Or hope according to his faculty. Nathless one thing is certain; who hath known Truth, beauty, goodness, shining in their sphere, Shall not be lost through any lesser lure. On black tempestuous waves he may be thrown; Yet to the right port shall he surely steer, And God Himself shall make his doing pure.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- John Addington Symonds
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 397; printed byline: John Addington Symonds; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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