Maxioms by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
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The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
It is Lucifer,
The son of mystery;
And since God suffers him to be,
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It is Lucifer,
The son of mystery;
And since God suffers him to be,
He, too, is God's minister,
And labors for some good
By us not understood.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
