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Wait For The Morning.

By James Whitcomb Riley

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Wait for the morning: - It will come, indeed,      As surely as the night hath given need.      The yearning eyes, at last, will strain their sight      No more unanswered by the morning light;      No longer will they vainly strive, through tears,      To pierce the darkness of thy doubts and fears,      But, bathed in balmy dews and rays of dawn,      Will smile with rapture o'er the darkness drawn.      Wait for the morning, O thou smitten child,      Scorned, scourged and persecuted and reviled -      Athirst and famishing, none pitying thee,      Crowned with the twisted thorns of agony -      No faintest gleam of sunlight through the dense      Infinity of gloom to lead thee thence -      Wait for the morning: - It will come, indeed,      As surely as the night hath given need.

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James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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