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Isles of Calm

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 21.

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Isles of Calm

By Whittier

O isles of calm! — O dark, still wood! And stiller skies that overbrood Your rest with deeper quietude!
Life's burdens fall, its discords cease, I lapse into the glad release Of Nature's own exceeding peace.
O, welcome calm of heart and mind! As falls yon fir-tree's loosened rind To leave a tenderer growth behind,
So fall the weary years away; A child again, my head I lay Upon the lap of this sweet day. — Whittier.