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Keep on thanksgiving! We are tenfold blest
Beyond others, simply having found each other.
Were we to part for ever, breast from breast,
Now, even now, there would not be another
In all the earth that should not envy aright
With plenty cause our short-lived happiness.
No life can hold one half-an-hour's delight
Such as we had—this morning! Why then, bless,
Bless all that lives and moves and hath its being!
Bless all the Gods, without omitting one!
Bless all the company of heaven, agreeing
To veil their fires to our stupendous sun!
Bless all the lesser glories that excite
In the great gladness of our mother light!
Beyond others, simply having found each other.
Were we to part for ever, breast from breast,
Now, even now, there would not be another
In all the earth that should not envy aright
With plenty cause our short-lived happiness.
No life can hold one half-an-hour's delight
Such as we had—this morning! Why then, bless,
Bless all that lives and moves and hath its being!
Bless all the Gods, without omitting one!
Bless all the company of heaven, agreeing
To veil their fires to our stupendous sun!
Bless all the lesser glories that excite
In the great gladness of our mother light!
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