Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
VI. ConsolationPeace
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Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
A peace that looketh not upon to-morrow,
But calmly on a tempest that is stilled.
Nor in the happy life of love secure,
But in the unerring strength the heart possesses,
Of conflicts won, while learning to endure.
A life subdued, from will and passion free;
’T is not the peace that over Eden brooded,
But that which triumphed in Gethsemane.