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  • Greatest Love of All Lyrics

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    Whitney Houston

    I believe the children are our are future
    Teach them well and let them lead the way
    Show them all the beauty they possess inside
    Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
    Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
    Everybody searching for a hero
    People need someone to look up to
    I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
    A lonely place to be
    So I learned to depend on me

    I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
    If I fail, if I succeed
    At least I live as I believe
    No matter what they take from me
    They can’t take away my dignity
    Because the greatest love of all
    Is happening to me
    I found the greatest love of all
    Inside of me
    The greatest love of all
    Is easy to achieve
    Learning to love yourself
    It is the greatest love of all

    I believe the children are our future
    Teach them well and let them lead the way
    Show them all the beauty they possess inside
    Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
    Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

    I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
    If I fail, if I succeed
    At least I live as I believe
    No matter what they take from me
    They can’t take away my dignity
    Because the greatest love of all
    Is happening to me
    I found the greatest love of all
    Inside of me
    The greatest love of all
    Is easy to achieve
    Learning to love yourself
    It is the greatest love of all

    And if by chance, that special place
    That you’ve been dreaming of
    Leads you to a lonely place
    Find your strength in love

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  • The Lamp

    By Sara Teasdale

    If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
    When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,
    I shall not fear the everlasting shadows,
    Nor cry in terror.

    If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,
    If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,
    Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me,
    A lamp in darkness.

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  • When I Am Dead, My Dearest

    By Christina Rossetti

    When I am dead, my dearest,
    Sing no sad songs for me;
    Plant thou no roses at my head,
    Nor shady cypress tree:
    Be the green grass above me
    With showers and dewdrops wet;
    And if thou wilt, remember,
    And if thou wilt, forget.
    I shall not see the shadows,
    I shall not feel the rain;
    I shall not hear the nightingale
    Sing on, as if in pain:
    And dreaming through the twilight
    That doth not rise nor set,
    Haply I may remember,
    And haply may forget.

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  • Fall Day

    By Rainer Maria Rilke

    Lord, it is time. This was a very big summer.
    Lay your shadows over the sundial,
    and let the winds loose on the fields.

    Command the last fruits to be full;
    give them two more sunny days,
    urge them on to fulfillment and throw
    the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

    Who has no house now, will never build one.
    Whoever is alone now, will long remain so,
    Will watch, read, write long letters
    and will wander in the streets, here and there
    restlessly, when the leaves blow.

    translated by Barbara Abbott and Larry Hauser

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  • Is my soul asleep?

    By Antonio Machado

    Is my soul asleep?
    Have those beehives that work
    in the night stopped? And the water-
    wheel of thought, is it
    going around now, cups
    empty, carrying only shadows?

    No, my soul is not asleep.
    It is awake, wide awake.
    It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
    its eyes wide open
    far-off things, and listens
    at the shores of the great silence.

    From The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy, edited by Robert Bly

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  • White in the Moon

    From: A SHROPSHIRE LAD: XXXVI

    By A.E. Housman

    White in the moon the long road lies,
    The moon stands blank above;
    White in the moon the long road lies
    That leads me from my love.

    Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
    Still, still the shadows stay:
    My feet upon the moonlit dust
    Pursue the ceaseless way.

    The world is round, so travellers tell,
    And straight though reach the track,
    Trudge on, trudge on, ’twill all be well,
    The way will guide one back.

    But ere the circle homeward hies
    Far, far must it remove:
    White in the moon the long road lies
    That leads me from my love.

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