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				Title:     Show Me The Way 
			    
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [
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Show me the way that leads to the true life.
       I do not care what tempests may assail me,
     I shall be given courage for the strife;
       I know my strength will not desert or fail me;
     I know that I shall conquer in the fray:
               Show me the way.
     Show me the way up to a higher plane,
       Where body shall be servant to the soul.
     I do not care what tides of woe or pain
       Across my life their angry waves may roll,
     If I but reach the end I seek, some day:
               Show me the way.
     Show me the way, and let me bravely climb
       Above vain grievings for unworthy treasures;
     Above all sorrow that finds balm in time;
       Above small triumphs or belittling pleasures;
     Up to those heights where these things seem child's-play:
               Show me the way.
     Show me the way to that calm, perfect peace
       Which springs from an inward consciousness of right;
     To where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease,
       And self shall radiate with the spirit's light.
     Though hard the journey and the strife, I pray,
               Show me the way.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem: Show Me The Way
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