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On a mountain top above the clouds / That streamed like a sea below me / I said that peak is the thought of Buddha, / And that one is the prayer of Jesus, / And this one is the dream of Plato, / And that one there the song of Dante, / And this is Kant and this is Newton, / And this is Milton and this is Shakespeare, / And this the hope of the Mother Church, / And this -- why all these peaks are poems, / Poems and prayers that pierce the clouds.
And I said "What does God do with mountains / That rise almost to heaven? "