A Quote by Alexander Smith
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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I--love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb--
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb.
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