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IF JOY WERE NOT DIVINE by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

First Line: IF JOY WERE NOT DIVINE, IMMORTAL
Last Line: ARE ONE, ARE ONE!
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; NATURE; JOY; DELIGHT;
IF Joy were not divine, immortal,
No lark would sing —
Thrilling the air at heaven's portal
On fearless wing.

If bliss, some day, were but a vision,
No rose would blow —
Biding its time with sweet precision
Beyond the snow.

Ah lark and rose! in Nature's bosom,
Since life begun,
Immortal Joy and song and blossom
Are one, are one!



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