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THE TRULY NOBLE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 21, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 29.

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THE TRULY NOBLE.

It is not that they never knew Weakness or fear who are the brave; Those are the proud, the knightly few Whose joy is still to serve and save.
But they who, in the weary night, Amid the darkness and the stress, Have struggled with disease and blight, With pitiful world-weariness;
They who have yearned to stand among The free and mighty of the earth, Whose sad, aspiring souls are wrung With starless hope and hollow mirth,
Who die with every day, yet live Through merciless, unbrightened years, Whose sweetest right is to forgive And smile divinely through their tears,
They are the noble, they the strong, They are the tried, the trusted ones, And tho their way is hard and long, Straight to the pitying God it runs.
—Harper’s Weekly.