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If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
 The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
 Is Nature's eye.  
 The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
 Is Nature's eye. 
 See the sun!
 God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.  
 See the sun!
 God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. 
 See the gold sunshine patching,
 And streaming and streaking across
  The gray-green oaks; and catching,
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 See the gold sunshine patching,
 And streaming and streaking across
  The gray-green oaks; and catching,
   By its soft brown beard, the moss. 
 Failing yet gracious,
 Slow pacing, soon homing,
  A patriarch that strolls
   Through the tents read more 
 Failing yet gracious,
 Slow pacing, soon homing,
  A patriarch that strolls
   Through the tents of his children,
    The sun as he journeys
     His round on the lower
      Ascents of the blue,
       Washes the roofs
        And the hillsides with clarity. 
The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
 She stood breast-high amid the corn,
 Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,
  Like the sweetheart of read more 
 She stood breast-high amid the corn,
 Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,
  Like the sweetheart of the sun,
   Who many a glowing kiss had won. 
High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.