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Soul, art thou sad again / With the old sadness? / Thou shalt be glad again / With a new gladness, / When April sun and rain / Mount to the teeming brain / With the earth madness.
When from the mould again, / Spurning disaster, / Spring shoots unfold again, / Follow thou faster / Out of the drear domain / Of dark, defeat, and pain, / Praising the Master.
Hope for thy guide again, / Ample and splendid; / Love at thy side again, / All doubting ended; / (Ah, by the dragon slain, / For nothing small or vain / Michael contended! )
Thou shalt take heart again, / No more despairing; / Play thy great part again, / Loving and caring. / Hark, how the gold refrain / Runs through the iron strain, / Splendidly daring!
Thou shalt grow strong again, / Confident, tender, -- / Battle with wrong again, / Be truth's defender, -- / Of the immortal train, / Born to attempt, attain, / Never surrender!