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On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
Bliss Carman
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Bliss Carman
Age: 68 †
Born: 1861
Born: April 15
Died: 1929
Died: June 8
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William Carman
William Bliss Carman
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Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
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I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.
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Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer it is joy it is art.
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