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We plant this stone as some small seed
Is sown at springtime, warm with earth;
We sow this seed as some good deed
Is sown, to grow until its worth
Shall grow, through rugged steeps of time,
To touch the God-built stars sublime.

— Joaquin Miller In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

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God can find a soul of beauty
Where it falls, as gems of worth
Are found by miners dark in earth.

Shadows of Shasta (1881)

That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.

In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

This creature comes from out the dim
Far centuries, beyond the rim
Of time's remotest reach or stir.

The Ship in the Desert (1875)

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