Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, It is the very pl… - Richard Chenevix Trench

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Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident,
It is the very place God meant for thee;
And should'st thou there small room for action see,
Do not for this give room for discontent.

Richard Chenevix Trench

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About Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Irish poet, and the Anglican archbishop of Dublin.

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Alternative Names: Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Richard Chenevix Trench • Trench, Richard Chenevix • Richard Chevenix Trench

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John Greenleaf Whittier Robert Browning Friedrich Schiller Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Isaac Watts

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What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.

It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,
Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.
There is no failure for the good and brave.

Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, It is the very place God meant for thee; And should'st thou there small room for action see, Do not for thi… - Richard Chenevix Trench

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