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The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/A Pretty Thought

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From "The Dream of Summer" in Poems of Nature.

4307272The North Star, 14 January, 1848 — A Pretty ThoughtJohn Greenleaf Whittier

A PRETTY THOUGHT.

The night is mother of the day,The winter of the spring,And ever upon old Decay,The greenest mosses cling.Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,Through showers the sunbeams fall;For God, who loveth all his works,Has left his hopes will all.