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Human Life’s Mystery - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Human Life’s Mystery

By Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - PoetryDB (Public Domain)300 words

We sow the glebe, we reap the corn,

We build the house where we may rest,

And then, at moments, suddenly,

We look up to the great wide sky,

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