What I Live For

What I live For

by G. Linnaeus Banks

Printed in The National Fifth Reader
Copyright 1884, by A.S. Barnes & CO.

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I live to hail the season
     By gifted minds fortold,
When men shall live by reason,
     And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
    As Eden was of old.

I live for those who love me,
    For those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
    And awaits my spirit, too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
    And the good that I can do.

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