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BENJ. S. PARKER
Thy rapt song makes of Earth a realm of lightAnd shadow mystical as some dreamland
Arched with unfathomed azure—vast and grand
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With orient noon; or strewn with stars of night
Thick as the daisies blown in grasses fanned
By odorous midsummer breezes and
Showered over by all bird-songs exquisite.
This is thy voice's beatific art—
To make melodious all things below,
Calling through them, from far, diviner space,
Thy clearer hail to us.—The faltering heart
Thou cheerest; and thy fellow mortal so
Fares onward under Heaven with lifted face.
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