Florence Earle Coates

“ LIVE THY LIFE
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 strife
That 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!
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1917, before the cutoff of January 1, 1928. ”

“ Mother of many children alien born,
⁠Whom she has gathered into her kind arms,—
Safe-guarding most the weakest, most forlorn,—
⁠The mother's patience she has learned to know,
Which passes trifles by with smiling scorn—
⁠The mother's hopefulness, to anger slow. ”

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