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Reciprocity

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I do not think that skies and meadows are     Moral, or that the fixture of a star     Comes of a quiet spirit, or that trees     Have wisdom in their windless silences.     Yet these are things invested in my mood     With constancy, and peace, and fortitude,     That in my troubled season I can cry     Upon the wide composure of the sky,     And envy fields, and wish that I might be     As little daunted as a star or tree.

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