<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115336" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines to ----</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank thee---not for that kind deed alone,<br> Though deep within my heart the record lies,<br> Engraved with those few pleasant memories,<br> That like stray sunbeams on my life have shone:<br> I thank thee most for this---that when belief<br> In human worth was darkening into doubt,---<br> As one by one, I marked with bitter grief<br> Those I had reverenced with a faith devout<br> Turn recreant back upon their heavenward way<br> And sink before me into common clay;<br> That thou dost come my faith to reassure,<br> My wavering trust in goodness to restore,<br> And bid my fainting hope take wing once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115336" data-title="Lines to ---- de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="I thank thee---not for that kind deed alone,/ Though deep within my heart the record lies,/ Engraved with those few pleasant memories,/ That like stray sunbeams on my life have shone:/ I thank thee most for this---that when belief/ In human w..."></div> </div> </div>

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