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The Great River

by Henry van Dyke

Henry van Dyke

"In la sua volontade è nostra pace."
O mighty river! strong, eternal Will,
Wherein the streams of human good and ill
Are onward swept, conflicting, to the sea!
The world is safe because it floats in Thee.




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