That thick and fast about our feet are stealing.
Life is too short.
Life is too short for aught but high endeavor—
Too short for spite, but long enough for love.
And love lives on forever and forever,
It links the worlds that circle on above;
’Tis God’s first law, the universe’s lever,
In His vast realm the radiant souls sigh never.
Life is too short. (Text.)
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