Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
How very hard it is to be a Christian!
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
I do what many dream of, all their lives
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.