The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.
Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.47
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