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Noontide Hymn

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I love thy skies, thy sunny mists,             Thy fields, thy mountains hoar,         Thy wind that bloweth where it lists--             Thy will, I love it more.         I love thy hidden truth to seek             All round, in sea, on shore;         The arts whereby like gods we speak--             Thy will to me is more.         I love thy men and women, Lord,             The children round thy door;         Calm thoughts that inward strength afford--             Thy will than these is more.         But when thy will my life doth hold             Thine to the very core,         The world, which that same will doth mould,             I love, then, ten times more!

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