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First Line: You dwell amidst a world not far below
Last Line: Nor rail at heights I may not hope to gain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love


YOU dwell amidst a world not far below
Splendour of courts, and state of queens and kings,
Yet cheer the halt and maimed, with ministerings
Of Love. The scoffer says, "Your radiant glow
But mocks their hopeless gloom!" It is not so!
Rather do these thank God for her who brings
Morn, and a wafture of all fragrant things,
To hearts that little else of sunlight know.
Far be the day when Life shall have no more
Its hills and valleys, only one dead plain!
Myself am of the valleys, whence do soar
The peaks, and proud in valleys I remain;
Yet watch the mountains from the river shore,
Nor rail at heights I may not hope to gain.





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