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-=== WAITING ===
+==== WAITING ====
 LEARN to wait—life’s hardest lesson,
-Conned, perchance, through blinding tears.
+\\ Conned, perchance, through blinding tears.
-While the heart-throbs sadly echo
+\\ While the heart-throbs sadly echo
-To the tread of passing years.
+\\ To the tread of passing years.
 Learn to wait—hope’s slow fruition;
-Faint not, though the way seems long,
+\\ Faint not, though the way seems long,
-There is joy in each condition,
+\\ There is joy in each condition,
-Hearts, through suffering, may grow strong.
+\\ Hearts, through suffering, may grow strong.
 Constant sunshine, howe’er welcome,
-Ne’er would ripen fruit or flower;
+\\ Ne’er would ripen fruit or flower;
-Giant oaks owe half their greatness
+\\ Giant oaks owe half their greatness
-To the scathing tempest’s power.
+\\ To the scathing tempest’s power.
 Thus a soul, untouched by sorrow,
-Aims not at a higher state;
+\\ Aims not at a higher state;
-Joy seeks not a brighter morrow,
+\\ Joy seeks not a brighter morrow,
-Only sad hearts learn to wait.
+\\ Only sad hearts learn to wait.
 Human strength and human greatness
-Spring not from life’s sunny side,
+\\ Spring not from life’s sunny side,
-Heroes must be more than driftwood,
+\\ Heroes must be more than driftwood,
-Floating on a waveless tide.
+\\ Floating on a waveless tide.
-—Anonymous.
+\\ —Anonymous.