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Edgar Guest - The Struggle
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Life is a struggle for peace,
      A longing for rest,
    A hope for the battles to cease,
      A dream for the best;
    And he is not living who stays
      Contented with things,
    Unconcerned with the work of the days
      And all that it brings.

    He is dead who sees nothing to change,
      No wrong to make right;
    Who travels no new way or strange
      In search of the light;
    Who never sets out for a goal
      That he sees from afar
    But contents his indifferent soul
      With things as they are.

    Life isn`t rest--it is toil;
      It is building a dream;
    It is tilling a parcel of soil
      Or bridging a stream;
    It`s pursuing the light of a star
      That but dimly we see,
    And in wresting from things as they are
      The joy that should be.
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