<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115644" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Last Lines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have given the last memento of my sister Emily; this is the last of my sister Anne:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hoped, that with the brave and strong,<br>My portioned task might lie;<br>To toil amid the busy throng,<br>With purpose pure and high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But God has fixed another part,<br>And He has fixed it well;<br>I said so with my bleeding heart,<br>When first the anguish fell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, God, hast taken our delight,<br>Our treasured hope away:<br>Thou bid'st us now weep through the night<br>And sorrow through the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These weary hours will not be lost,<br>These days of misery,<br>These nights of darkness, anguish-tost,<br>Can I but turn to Thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With secret labour to sustain<br>In humble patience every blow;<br>To gather fortitude from pain,<br>And hope and holiness from woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus let me serve Thee from my heart,<br>Whate'er may be my written fate:<br>Whether thus early to depart,<br>Or yet a while to wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Thou shouldst bring me back to life,<br>More humbled I should be;<br>More wise — more strengthened for the strife —<br>More apt to lean on Thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should death be standing at the gate,<br>Thus should I keep my vow:<br>But, Lord! whatever be my fate,<br>Oh, let me serve Thee now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These lines written, the desk was closed, the pen laid aside — forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</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=115644" data-title="Last Lines de Anne Brontë" data-description="I have given the last memento of my sister Emily; this is the last of my sister Anne:/I hoped, that with the brave and strong,/My portioned task might lie;/To toil amid the busy throng,/With purpose pure and high./But God has fixed another part,/A..."></div> </div> </div>

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