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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Life`s Lesson BookElla Wheeler Wilcox - Life`s Lesson Book
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Life is a ponderous lesson-book, and Fate The teacher. When I came to love`s fair leaf My teacher turned the page and bade me wait. "Learn first," she said, "love`s grief"; And o`er and o`er through many a long tomorrow She kept me conning that sad page of sorrow. Cruel the task; and yet it was not vain. Now the great book of life I know by heart. In that one lesson of love`s loss and pain Fate doth the whole impart. For, by the depths of woe, the mind can measure The beauteous unscaled summits of love`s pleasure. Now, with the book of life upon her knee, Fate sits! the unread page of love`s delight By her firm hand is half concealed from me, And half revealed to sight. Ah Fate! be kind! so well I learned love`s sorrow, Give me its full delight to learn tomorrow.
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