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And sympathy may fail:

Yet all becomes a discipline,

To lure us to the sky;

And angels bear the good it brings

With fostering care on high.

Though human hearts may weary grow,

And sink to toil-spent sleep,

And we are left in solitude

And agony to weep:

Yet they with ministering zeal