Live Thy Life
Poems — Volume I
LIVE thy life gallantly and undismayed:Whatever harms may hide within the shade,Be thou of fear, my spirit! more afraid.
In earthly pathways evil springeth rife;But dread not thou, too much, or pain or strifeThat plunge thee to the greater depths of life!
What though the storm-cloud holds the bolt that sears?The eagle of the crag, that nothing fears,Still, still is young after a hundred years!