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WHILE I LIVE by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS

First Line: YOU ARE NO MORE THAN YONDER STAR
Last Line: BUT YOU -- OH, WILL YOU CARE OR KNOW!
YOU are no more than yonder star
In worldly place or speech or deed;
To you no longer men give heed,
You are no more -- and yet, you are!

For while I live you live in me;
The all-I-am I will upraise,
Not for myself, to win world praise --
That you may more exalted be!

And when they see me upward go,
"His soul indwelling," I will say,
"Breathes fiery power and points the way,"
But you -- Oh, will you care or know!



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