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Build on resolve, and not upon regret, / The structure of thy future. Do not grope / Among the shadows of old sins, but let / Thine own soul's light shine on the path of hope / And dissipate the darkness. Waste no tears / Upon the blotted record of lost years, / But turn the leaf and smile, oh, smile, to see / The fair white pages that remain for thee.
Prate not of thy repentance. But believe / The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow. / That which the upreaching spirit can achieve / The grand and all-creative forces know; / They will assist and strengthen as the light / Lifts up the acorn to the oak tree's height. / Thou hast but to resolve, and lo! God's whole / Great universe shall fortify thy soul.