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1849–1903

XI — To W. R.

William Ernest Henley

Thick is the darkness - Sunward, O, sunward! Rough is the highway - Onward, still onward!

Dawn harbours surely East of the shadows. Facing us somewhere Spread the sweet meadows.

Upward and forward! Time will restore us: Light is above us, Rest is before us.

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