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Life is a long wish & a longer
disappointment, a bright delusion
for a period & a short sour
ever after. Blessed are they
who look for the fulfilment
of their expectations not now
but hereafter – who fixing their
steadfast eye beyond the finest
of earthly desires – the grave look
for the accomplishment of a
higher & surer life in that
better land where sorrow entereth
not – where Sin hath no abiding
place where sorrow is unknown
It is said that time, the
silent & inscrutable is
the surest & best alleviation
of sorrow – I wish I could
find it so but ah! how
I yearn for a love which