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Sight.

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The world is bright with beauty, and its days     Are filled with music; could we only know     True ends from false, and lofty things from low;     Could we but tear away the walls that graze     Our very elbows in life's frosty ways;     Behold the width beyond us with its flow,     Its knowledge and its murmur and its glow,     Where doubt itself is but a golden haze.     Ah brothers, still upon our pathway lies     The shadow of dim weariness and fear,     Yet if we could but lift our earthward eyes     To see, and open our dull ears to hear,     Then should the wonder of this world draw near     And life's innumerable harmonies.

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