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"Then hope shall shine from heaven, and give To fruit of hard work, sunny cheek, And flowers of grace and love revive, And shrivelled pasturage grow sleek, And corn snail thrive.

"Beholding gladness, Eve and I, Enfolding it also in each other, May talk of heaven without a sigh; Because our heaven in one another Love shall supply.

"For courage, faith, and bended knees, By stress of patience, cure distress, And turn wild Love-in-idleness Into the true Heartsease."

The Lord breathed on the first of men, And strung his limbs to strength again; He scorned a century of ill, And girt his loins to climb the parting hill.