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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 14, 1903

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Serving

THE sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread Where love ennobles all.

The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells, The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-work is done. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad, A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself in every sense Of service which to men thou renderest.