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We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.

We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Sunshine, Joy, Atmosphere
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

John Greenleaf Whittier
Flower, Sunshine, Woods
John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.22, tredition

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Weed, Work, Sunshine
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.77

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Eye, Sunshine, Blue
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.14

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