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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 27, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 18.

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Consolation.

By Adelaide A. Proctor

WHAT seems so dark to thy dim sight May be a shadow—seen aright— Making some brightness doubly bright.
The flash that struck thy tree—no more To shelter thee—let heaven's blue floor Shine where it never shone before.
The cry wrung from thy spirit's pain May echo on some far-off plain, And guide a wanderer home again.
Fail—yet rejoice, because no less The failure that makes thy distress May teach another full success.
It may be that in some great need Thy life's poor fragments are decreed To help build up a lofty deed.
Thy heart should throb in vast content, Thus knowing that it was but meant As chord in one great instrument.
That even the discord in thy soul May make completer music roll From out the great harmonious whole.
[Adelaide A. Proctor.