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Ye speak of human life, ee 
Its mystery—the beautiful and brief; 
Its sudden fading ’midst the tempest strife, 
Fiven as a delicate leaf. 
And, more than all, ye speak 
Of might, and power, of mercy, of the One 
Eternal, who hath strew’d you fair and meek, 
To glisten in the sun ; 
To gladden all the 
With bright and beaut 
That showers its gifts 
in every clime and 
earth 
ous emblems of his grace, 
f ut seomnputod ort 



