nd and rain; and out of it comes
seed harvest. The waters of the sea are poured in thunder wrack upon the
hills and run in rivers back into the sea. The winds make weather, and
weather profits man. When will man's turmoil cease, when will he find
calm? I do not know. I only know that toil and struggle are sweet, and
that life well lived is victory. And that calm is death.
Man must face an iron world, but he is iron to subdue it.
The lessons of my life were learned at the forge and I am grateful for
my schooling.
"Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of Life
Our fortunes must be wrought,
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought"
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