“The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.”

—  Charles Mackay

"The Old and the New".
Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)

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