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Truth—Goodness—Beauty—those celestial thrins

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Truth—Goodness—Beauty—those celestial thrins,
Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,
With thousand throats—and eke with greener smiles,
Its joy confesses at their recent birth.




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