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STANDING ON TIPTOE by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON

First Line: STANDING ON TIPTOE EVER SINCE MY YOUTH
Last Line: DWELLS WITH THE STARS.
Subject(s): FUTURE; TRUTH;
STANDING on tiptoe ever since my youth,
Striving to grasp the future just above,
I hold at length the only future -- Truth,
And Truth is Love.

I feel as one who being awhile confined
Sees drop to dust about him all his bars: --
The clay grows less, and, leaving it, the mind
Dwells with the stars.



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