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Your room, you say, is very dark to-night! A little candle -- and / you've lots of light! Your baby pleads, "Don't leave me by myself. " / You place a night-light on a little shelf, and baby smiles and feels / quite comforted, and thus companioned, snuggles into bed. The road / seems very dark and long to you; the hand-clasp of a friend, a smile / that's true, and that grim darkness is dispersed by love and brightly / shines the sun or moon above. The mind that gropes in darkness for / the truth, and sees a little light is rich, forsooth. A little light / is what we all desire, a tiny candle for our spirit's fire. Here is / a helpful thought I read to-day for us who grope and stumble on our / way; there's not enough of darkness round about to put the smallest / waxen candle out! So hold aloft your candle, shine or rain, that / those in darkness may take heart again.