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Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900
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To an Early Violet

   

 

Swami Vivekananda

What though thy bed be frozen earth,
Thy cloak the chilling blast;
What though no mate to clear thy path,
Thy sky with gloom o'ercast --


What though of love itself doth fail,
Thy fragrance strewed in vain;
What though if bad o'er good prevail,
And vice o'er virtue reign --


Change not thy nature, gentle bloom,
Thou violet, sweet and pure,
But ever pour thy sweet perfume
Unasked, unstinted, sure !

- Swami Vivekananda

(Written to Sister Christine from New York on 6th January 1896.)

 

 

 

 

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- www.vivekananda.net edited by Frank Parlato Jr.

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