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A Creed

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That I should live and look with open eyes         I count as half my claim to Paradise.         I have not crept beneath cathedral arches,         But bathed in streams beneath the silver larches;         And have not grovelled to the Sunday priest,         But found an unconfined and daily feast;         Was called ungodly, and to those who blamed         Laughed back defiance and was not ashamed.         Some hold their duty to be mournful; why?         I cannot love your weeping poets; I         Am sad in winter, but in summer gay,         And vary with each variable day.         And though the pious cavilled at my mirth,         At least I rendered thanks for God's fair earth,         Grateful that I, among the murmuring rest,         Was not an unappreciative guest.

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