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There is no grief for me / Nor sadness any more; / For since I first knew thee / Great Joy has kept my door.
That angel of the calm / All-comprehending smile, / No menace can dismay, / No falsity beguile.
Out of the house of life / Before him fled away / Languor, regret, and strife / And sorrow on that day.
Grim fear, unmanly doubt, / And impotent despair / Went at his bidding forth / Among the things that were, --
Leaving a place all clean, / Resounding of the sea / And decked with forest green, / To be a home for thee.