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Great dignity ever attends great grief, / And silently walks beside it; / And I always know when I see such woe / That Invisible Helpers guide it. / And I know deep sorrow is like a tide, / It cannot ever be flowing; / The high-water mark in the night and the dark- / Then dawn, and the outward going.
But the people who pull at my heart-strings hard / Are the ones whom destiny hurries / Through commonplace ways to the end of their days, / And pesters with paltry worries. / The peddlers who trudge with a budget of wares / To the door that is slammed unkindly; / The vendor who stands with his shop in his hands / Where the hastening hosts pass blindly;