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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - PossessionElla Wheeler Wilcox - Possession
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That which we had we still possess,      Though leaves may drop and stars may fall; No circumstance can make it less      Or take it from us, all in all. That which is lost we did not own;      We only held it for a day— A leaf by careless breezes blown:      No fate could take our own away. I hold it as a changeless law      From which no soul can ever sway or swerve, We have that in us which will draw      Whate`er we need or most deserve. Even as the magnet to the steel      Our souls are to the best desires; The Fates have hearts and they can feel—      They know what each true heart requires. We think we lose when most we gain;      We call joys ended ere begun; When stars fade out do skies complain,      Or glory in the rising sun? No fate could rob us of our own—      No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan,      For what was ours we still possess.
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