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Rh To see the beauty of the world, and hear The rising harmony of growth, whose shade Of undertone is harmonized decay; To know that love is life—that blood is one And rushes to the union—that the heart Is like a cup athirst for wine of love; Who sees and feels this meaning utterly, The wrong of law, the right of man, the natural truth, Partaking not of selfish aims, withholding not The word that strengthens and the hand that helps; Who waits and sympathizes with the pettiest life, And loves all things, and reaches up to God With thanks and blessing—he alone is living.