<SPAN name="XXII"></SPAN>XXII<br/>
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Oh, this happiness,<br/>
Sometimes so rare, so frail,<br/>
It brings us near distress!<br/>
In vain we strive, as our hearts fail,<br/>
To make for us a screening tent<br/>
With all thy wondrous hair<br/>
To shelter us from care—<br/>
Yet deep within does anguish still ferment.<br/>
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But love, a kneeling angel prays,<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Asking alone for this,</span><br/>
That Fate may give to others equal days<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of tenderness and bliss.</span><br/>
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And on those stormy days when evenings share<br/>
With highest heaven all their cruel despair,<br/>
We seek forgiveness as the night unrolls—<br/>
Forgiveness for the sweetness in our souls.<br/>
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