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1882–1937

RECIPROCITY

John Drinkwater

I do not think that skies and meadows are Moral, or that the fixture of a star Comes of a quiet spirit, or that trees Have wisdom in their windless silences.

Yet these are things invested in my mood With constancy, and peace, and fortitude, That in my troubled season I can cry Upon the wide composure of the sky,

And envy fields, and wish that I might be As little daunted as a star or tree.

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