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Show Me The Way.

    By Ella Wheeler Wilcox



            Show me the way that leads to the true life.
        I do not care what tempests may assail me,
            I shall be given courage for the strife;
        I know my strength will not desert or fail me;
            I know that I shall conquer in the fray:
        Show me the way.

            Show me the way up to a higher plane,
        Where body shall be servant to the soul.
            I do not care what tides of woe or pain
        Across my life their angry waves may roll,
            If I but reach the end I seek, some day:
        Show me the way.

            Show me the way, and let me bravely climb
        Above vain grievings for unworthy treasures;
            Above all sorrow that finds balm in time;
        Above small triumphs or belittling pleasures;
            Up to those heights where these things seem child's-play:
        Show me the way.

            Show me the way to that calm, perfect peace
        Which springs from an inward consciousness of right;
            To where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease,
        And self shall radiate with the spirit's light.
            Though hard the journey and the strife, I pray,
        Show me the way.



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