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Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine; / From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen; / How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, / I cannot grasp at once those better things, / To which I in my inmost soul aspire, / Lean down and lift me higher.
I grope along -- not desolate or sad, / For youth and hope and health all keep me glad; / But too bright sunlight sometimes makes us blind, / And I do grope for heights I cannot find; / Oh, thou must know my one supreme desire. / Lean down and lift me higher.