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SLIGHTED VALUES.
If diamonds lay thicker than pebbles,
What plodder would rank them higher?
What searcher would covet their shining,
Or gather them out of the mire?
They are prized for their rarity only,
And not for their hearts of fire.
What plodder would rank them higher?
What searcher would covet their shining,
Or gather them out of the mire?
They are prized for their rarity only,
And not for their hearts of fire.
Our greatest blessings are cheapest,
Costing no toil or pain;
No miser can heap for increase,
No usurer hoard for gain,
The gold of the priceless sunshine,
The gems of the precious rain.
Costing no toil or pain;
No miser can heap for increase,
No usurer hoard for gain,
The gold of the priceless sunshine,
The gems of the precious rain.
Who measures the blessed daylight,
And sells us a costly share?
Who doles out the crystal currents
Which gush for us everywhere,
Or reckons by varying values
The worth of the vital air?
And sells us a costly share?
Who doles out the crystal currents
Which gush for us everywhere,
Or reckons by varying values
The worth of the vital air?
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Yet men are so blind and selfish,
Their hearts are so hard and cold,
That all things are undervalued
Which have not their price in gold;
And nothing is reckoned precious
That cannot be bought and sold.
Their hearts are so hard and cold,
That all things are undervalued
Which have not their price in gold;
And nothing is reckoned precious
That cannot be bought and sold.
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