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In
Divers Tones
by
Charles G.D. Roberts
Edited
by Tracy Ware
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BREATHING TIME
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Here
is a breathing time, and rest for a little season.
Here have I drained deep draughts out of the springs
of life.
Here, as of old, while still unacquainted with toil
and faintness,
Stretched are my veins with strength, fearless my
heart and at peace.
I have come back from the crowd, the blinding strife
and the tumult,
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Pain,
and the shadow of pain, sorrow in silence endured;
Fighting, at last I have fallen, and sought the
breast of the Mother,—
Quite cast down I have crept close to the broad
sweet earth.
Lo, out of failure triumph! Renewed the wavering
courage,
Tense the unstrung nerves, steadfast the faltering
knees!
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Weary
no more, nor faint, nor grieved at heart, nor despairing,
Hushed in the earth’s green lap, lulled to
slumber and dreams!
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