The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2., Poems of Nature, Xx.

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Better to stem with heart and hand
     The roaring tide of life, than lie,
Unmindful, on its flowery strand,
     Of God's occasions drifting by!
Better with naked nerve to bear
     The needles of this goading air,
Than, in the lap of sensual ease, forego
     The godlike power to do, the godlike aim to know.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888-89.

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