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Song of Day in Yosemite Valley
Behold! Yosemite, sermoning Truth and Liberty, battles in spirit with the Pacific Ocean afar!
O unfading wonder, eternal glory! I pray a redemption from the majesty that chains me—
(Lo, Hell offers a great edifice unto Heaven!) O, I bid my envy and praise rest against thee;
I am content in the sounding Silence, in the powerless Time that holds the Valley in the age of gold;
I proffer my stainful body and leprous soul with blackest shame unto thee;
I am united with the Universe, and the Universe with me.
O unfading wonder, eternal glory! I pray a redemption from the majesty that chains me—
(Lo, Hell offers a great edifice unto Heaven!) O, I bid my envy and praise rest against thee;
I am content in the sounding Silence, in the powerless Time that holds the Valley in the age of gold;
I proffer my stainful body and leprous soul with blackest shame unto thee;
I am united with the Universe, and the Universe with me.
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