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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE IDLER by EDWARD CARPENTER

First Line: I AM HE THAT BEHOLDS AND PRAISES THE UNIVERSE
Last Line: BUT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM, SINGING.
Subject(s): IDLENESS; LAZINESS; SLOTH; INDOLENCE;
I AM he that beholds and praises the universe,
Singing all day like a bird among the branches,
And the leaves put forth and the young bods burst asunder—yet I myself
do nothing at all,
But dwell in the midst of them, singing.



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