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Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915)
“A Thousand Years in Thy Sight Are but as One Day”
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The figure at the feet of Love;
Light of breathing life is she,
Spirit of immortality.
O Spirit, into thy great air!
For his day of pain and tears
Is to man a thousand years.