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Famous Single Poems

them, I think we can agree that it is always fitting to preach the gospel of beauty in the commonplace. Look about your own vicinity and find heaven. The grand and beautiful are there if you have eyes for them.”

And that was the gospel which John Burroughs preached to the very end of his days.

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