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to a distant star??For lo! we dwell within the Land of Dream;?The walls of jasper round about us gleam,?Beneath our feet the golden pavements are.
It is not far, O brothers, to the light;?Unheard by us the crystal waters flow,--?By every path the leaves of healing grow;?We dream of pinions when we need but SIGHT.

There is a Blessed Vale of beauty rare,?Alas! I cannot find it when I would;?Yet sometimes, in a meditative mood,?My feet have wandered, how I know not, there.
On devious paths unseen by mortal eyes,?O'er pleasant fields or shadowy by-ways drear,?I draw in joy, perchance in sadness, near?To where in peace the Blessed Valley lies.
Sometimes when thro' the sapphire arch of morn?The tides of light and bird-song mingled roll,?A softer radiance falls upon my soul,?A sweeter music to mine ear is borne.
When day's last color like a star-tipt sail?Has vanished o'er the western sea of night,?The air grows mellow with a rosy light,--?And lo! I stand within the mystic vale.
And sometimes on the city's crowded street,?Where avarice meets in never-ending fray,?The roar of trafficking dies far away,?And round me blooms the Blessed Valley sweet.
Bright dreams of Heaven! alas, how soon ye fail,?And leave me to the empty ways of earth,?Whose treasures seem to me of little worth,?Since I have stood within the Blessed Vale.
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