THICK IS THE DARKNESS
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How many of us forget when the sun goes down that it will rise again!
Thick is the darkness— Sunward, O, sunward! Rough is the highway— Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors 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.
William Ernest Henley.