Elizabeth Akers Allen

Quotes

• “Behold, we live through all things,—famine, thirst,Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worstOn soul and body,—but we can not die.Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,—Lo, all things can be borne!”
• “I count no more my wasted tears;They left no echo of their fall;I mourn no more my lonesome years;This blessed hour atones for all.”
• “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,Make me a child again, just for to-night!”
• “Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,—Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,—Take them and give me my childhood again!”
• “O flowers! the soul that faints or grievesNew comfort from your lips receives;Sweet confidence and patient faith are hidden in your leaves.”
• “Dawn of a brighter, whiter dayThan ever blessed us with its ray,—A dawn beneath whose purer light all guilt and wrong shall fade away.”

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