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ACROSS THE INTERVALE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: ALONG LIFE'S LOWLANDS, PETTY MEN
Last Line: LIKE PEAKS ACROSS AN INTERVALE.
Subject(s): CREATIVE ABILITY; LIFE; SKY; SOUL; INSPIRATION; CREATIVITY;

ALONG Life's lowlands, petty men
Mix in a crowd with thoughts earth-tied
And sympathies too narrow-eyed
To peer beyond their little Then.
They walk their ways, all unaware
Of folk-moots in the upper air.

But, few and far between, arise
Great souls who overtop the small
And transient, who have range of all
The inspirations of the skies;
Then each to each they cry @3Good hail,@1
Like peaks across an intervale.



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