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SOIL AND SOUL by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON

First Line: THE EARTH A BIT OF STAR-DUST IS
Last Line: "TO PLUNDER OR CREATE."
Subject(s): CREATION; GOD; MANKIND; HUMAN RACE;
The earth a bit of star-dust is,
And all of us but smaller bits
Of that celestial stuff.
In each of us, a bit of Soil
That makes us kin
To all that breathes;
In each of us, a bit of Soul
That makes us kin to God.

Forget not, O my Soul,
That sacred Soil!

The Creator through
An eon's toil
Combined these two,
And said, "It is enough.
My work is good:
In my own image—Man!
And in his mortal time,
In his own hand,
He holds his fate:
To build or ruin,
To plunder or create."



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