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For what you find in these sweet days, Depends on how you go about it; A glad heart helps poor eyes to see, What brightest eyes can’t see without it. One child sees sunlit air and sky And bursting leaf buds, round and ruddy; Another looks at his own feet, And only sees that it is muddy!
For what you find in these sweet days, Depends on how you go about it; A glad heart helps poor eyes to see, What brightest eyes can’t see without it. One child sees sunlit air and sky And bursting leaf buds, round and ruddy; Another looks at his own feet, And only sees that it is muddy!
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- Henrietta R. Eliot
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 56; printed byline: Henrietta R. Eliot; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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