I said to the man who
Stood at the gate of the year,
“Give me a light that I may
tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied-
“Go out into the Darkness
And put your hand into the
Hand of God.
That shall be to you better
Than light and safety than
A known way.
From a poster displayed in the Museum of the Irish Potato Famine.
Copyright M. L. Harkins, quoted by His Majesty the King in an Empire Broadcast.
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