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Wings of silver

Chapter 5: FAITH
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The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

FAITH

Drop by drop that never ceasing falls,
Water wears its way through granite walls;
Thought by thought that, conscious of its power,
Goes forth from the heart each day, each hour,—
Love shall conquer every hate-born breath,
Life Eternal triumph over death.
Step by step that ever tends to rise,
Man shall scale the heights of Paradise;
Prayer by prayer that knows all might is given,
Man shall win through fleshly bars—to Heaven.