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Just to be good -- / This is enough -- enough!
O we who find sin's billows wild and rough, / Do we not feel how more than any gold / Would be the blameless life we led of old / While yet our lips knew but a mother's kiss?
Ah! though we miss / All else but this, / To be good is enough!
It is enough -- / Enough -- just to be good!
To lift our hearts where they are understood; / To let the thirst for worldly power and place / Go unappeased; to smile back in God's face / With the glad lips our mothers used to kiss.
Ah! though we miss / All else but this, / To be good is enough!