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Archibald Lampman

To the distance! Ah, the distance!
  Blue and broad and dim!
Peace is not in burgh or meadow,
  But beyond the rim.

Aye, beyond it, far beyond it;
  Follow still my soul,
Till this earth is lost in heaven,
  And thou feel’st the whole.

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From Lyrics of Earth | Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895

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