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Poems

THE MIRROR OF LIFE

From the November 1893 issue of The Christian Science Journal

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"Do you wish for kindness? Be kind;
Do you ask for truth? Be true,
What you give of yourself, you find;
Your world is a reflex of you.

For life is a mirror. You smile,
And a smile is your sure return,
Bear hate in your heart, and erewhile
All your world with hatred will burn.

Set love against love. Every deed
Shall armed as a fate, recoil;
You shall gather your fruit from the seed
That you cast yourself in the soil.

Each act is a separate link
In the chain of your weal or your woe;
Cups you offer another to drink
The taste of their dregs ye shall know."-Selected.

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