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• Michael Mensah

  Want to understand it’s import.
  Why the quote and for who?

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• dave

  AUTHOR: James Russell Lowell (1819–91)
  QUOTATION: Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
  The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
  The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
  We bargain for the graves we lie in;
  At the Devil’s booth are all things sold,
  Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;
  For a cap and bells our lives we pay,
  Bubbles we buy with a whole soul’s tasking:
  ’T is heaven alone that is given away,
  ’T is only God may be had for the asking;
  No price is set on the lavish summer;
  June may be had by the poorest comer.
  And what is so rare as a day in June?
  Then, if ever, come perfect days;
  Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
  And over it softly her warm ear lays:
  Whether we look, or whether we listen,
  We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.
  ATTRIBUTION: JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” prelude to part 1, lines 21–38, The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems, p. 4–5 (1887).
  SUBJECTS: Worth

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