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Not with the world to teach us, may we learn The spirit's noblest lessons. Hope and Faith Are stars that shine amid the far off heaven, Dimmed and obscured by vapours from below; Impatient selfishness, and shrewd distrust, Are taught us in the common ways of life; Dust is beneath our feet, and at our side The coarse and mean, the false and the unjust; And constant contact makes us grow too like The things we daily struggle with and scorn: Only by looking up, can we see heaven.