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-Knowing how you loved the flowers, I made them the bearers of
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-my love. Into each one I breathed a thought—a thought of Joy,
+Knowing how you loved the flowers, I made them the bearers of my love. Into each one I breathed a thought—a thought of Joy, a thought of Peace, a thought of Healing, a thought of Life, a thought of God, and I said, “Father, I thank Thee, that Thou hast heard me. It is done.”
-a thought of Peace, a thought of Healing, a thought of Life, a
-thought of God, and I said, “Father, I thank Thee, that Thou
-hast heard me. It is done.”
-I knew after that I could never be sick in the same way again.
+I knew after that I could never be sick in the same way again. If a shadow dropped over me, I would know it was only the mist, which hid for a moment my world of flowers. I would pray for the sun to shine through, and then in all its beauty once again I would see my Inner World aglow with light.
-If a shadow dropped over me, I would know it was only the mist,
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-which hid for a moment my world of flowers. I would pray for
-the sun to shine through, and then in all its beauty once again I
-would see my Inner World aglow with light.
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-=== REVERIE ===
+==== REVERIE ====
 By Robert Browning
 WHEN life is—to wake, not sleep,
+\\ Rise and now rest, but press
-Rise and now rest, but press
+\\ From earth’s level where blindly creep
+\\ Things perfected, more or less,
-From earth’s level where blindly creep
+\\ To the heaven’s height far and steep.
-Things perfected, more or less,
-To the heaven’s height far and steep.
 Where, amid what strife and storms
+\\ May wait the adventurous guest,
-May wait the adventurous guest,
+\\ Power is Love—transports, transforms
+\\ Who aspired from worst to best,
-Power is Love—transports, transforms
+\\ Sought the Soul’s world, spurned the worm’s.
-Who aspired from worst to best,
-Sought the Soul’s world, spurned the worm’s.
 I have faith such end shall be.
+\\ From the first, Power was, I knew.
-From the first, Power was, I knew.
+\\ Life has made clear to me
+\\ That, striven but for clearer view,
-Life has made clear to me
+\\ Love were as plain to see.
-That, striven but for clearer view,
-Love were as plain to see.
 When see? When there dawns a day
+\\ If not on the lonely earth,
-If not on the lonely earth,
+\\ Then yonder, worlds away,
+\\ Where the strange and new life has birth,
-Then yonder, worlds away,
+\\ And Power comes full in play.
+\\ —Written just before his death.
-Where the strange and new life has birth,
-And Power comes full in play.
-—Written just before his death.