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Back to your mind to make its home
A dove, or raven, it will come.

Then let your secret thots be fair
They have a vital part and share
In shaping worlds, and moulding fates-
God's system is so intricate.

Encouragement.
Edith Willis.

What tho' we fail? through failure
The spirit learns to rise;
Upon the soul we bear the marks
Of every sacrifice.

That which we dream of doing,
That which we wish to be,
That which our prayer is pleading
With pure intensity: _

This is the truest nature,
The God like and the strong
Struggling, and yearning upward
Thro' failure, and thro' wrong.