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My Song

by John Vance Cheney

John Vance Cheney

My song, you need be neither long nor loud,

If only love and beauty's own you are;

It is the one breath curls the leaf and cloud,

The one life lights the daisy and the star.




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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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    Henry David Thoreau

    Great Friend
    I walk in nature still alone And know no one, Discern no lineament nor feature Of any creature. Though all the firmament Is o'er me bent,