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Still must I climb if I would rest; The bird soars upward to his nest; The young leaf on the tree-top high Cradles itself within the sky. I cannot in the valley stay: The great horizons stretch away; The very cliffs that wall me round Are ladders unto higher ground. I am not glad till I have known Life that can lift me from mine own; A loftier level must be won. A mightier strength to lean upon.
Still must I climb if I would rest; The bird soars upward to his nest; The young leaf on the tree-top high Cradles itself within the sky. I cannot in the valley stay: The great horizons stretch away; The very cliffs that wall me round Are ladders unto higher ground. I am not glad till I have known Life that can lift me from mine own; A loftier level must be won. A mightier strength to lean upon.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Lucy Larcom
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 32; printed byline: Lucy Larcom; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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