SHUTTERS.
When you fire darkened, and your fate deplore. Rise—seek to make the sum of sorrow less; And life's true meaning, uaperceired before, ~ ' Will dawn from ont the new unselfishness. Shutteis of self close the compiamer's view; . But some small action for another's weal Witt stir their hinges, and a ray break through Wbteft shall a glimpse of Duty's face reveal. Each, eafha&t service for humanity Will set Ben's shutters more and more ajar; Flooded with Grfftf s own light the soul will be, When thrust wide ejwn with good deeds they are. —C. F. Bates, in ' Harper's.'
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Evening Star, Issue 9582, 31 December 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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98SHUTTERS. Evening Star, Issue 9582, 31 December 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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