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Behold the earth swung in among the stars / Fit home for gods if men were only kind- / Do thou thy part to shape it to those ends, / By shaping thine own life to perfectness. / Seek nothing for thyself or thine own kin / That robs another of one hope or joy, / Let no man toil in poverty and pain / To give thee unearned luxury and ease. / Feed not the hungry servitor with stones, / That idle guests may fatten on thy bread. / Look for the good in stranger and in foe, / Nor save thy praises for the cherished few; / And let the weakest sinner find in thee / An impetus to reach receding heights.
Behold the earth swung in among the stars- / Fit home for gods; wake thou the God within / And by the broad example of thy love / Communicate Omnipotence to men. / All men are unawakened gods: be thine / The voice to rouse them from unhappy sleep