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Life has a thousand pages—love and scorn, Hope and adventure, poverty and sin, Despair and glory, loneliness forlorn, Age, sorrow, exile, all are writ therein—; And on each page, however stern or sad, Are words which gleam upon the crabbed scroll, Revealing words, that make our spirits glad, And well are worth the study of the soul. We may not lightly shrink from any leaf, For on it may be writ the word we need. God turns the page—whatever joy or grief He opens for us, let us wisely read.
Life has a thousand pages—love and scorn, Hope and adventure, poverty and sin, Despair and glory, loneliness forlorn, Age, sorrow, exile, all are writ therein—; And on each page, however stern or sad, Are words which gleam upon the crabbed scroll, Revealing words, that make our spirits glad, And well are worth the study of the soul. We may not lightly shrink from any leaf, For on it may be writ the word we need. God turns the page—whatever joy or grief He opens for us, let us wisely read.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Priscilla Leonard
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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 343; printed byline: Priscilla Leonard; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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