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Recorded Reading (1:09): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wd864nhc0cv1iwa0cjype/Dare-Boldly.mp3?rlkey=qs4lyq1e63uieneh59wi0osl3&dl=0

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Dare Boldly

Dare boldly to conduct an open heart
Through this world’s fields of groaning misery
Dare to reach out, some comfort to impart
Though, all about it, untouched sorrow be

Dare boldly those less fortunate among,
Unfearing of their misery, to go
Dare boldly, that by you be clearly sung
Their song, so that the privileged may know

What may in no wise other understand:
What ’tis when all foundation, formerly
Secure, buckles until we cannot stand
Unaided, as had ever planned to be

Dare boldly — by your lifted lamp we see
How beautifully lived a life can be

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