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Whether the way be dark or light / My soul shall sing as I journey on, / As sweetly sing in the deeps of night / As it sang in the burst of the golden dawn.
Nothing can crush me, or silence me long, / Though the heart be bowed, yet the soul will rise, / Higher and higher on wings of song, / Till it swims like the lark in a sea of skies.
Though youth may fade, and love grow cold, / And friends prove false, and best hopes blight, / Yet the sun will wade in waves of gold, / And the stars in glory will shine at night.
Though all earth's joys from my life are missed, / And I of the whole world stand bereft, / Yet dawns will be purple and amethyst, / And I cannot be sad while the seas are left.
For I am a part of the mighty whole; / I belong to the system of life and death. / I am under the law of a Great Central, / And strong with the courage of love and faith.