The Meanest Floweret Of The Vale, The Simplest Note That Swells The Gale, The Common Sun, The Air, The Skies, To Him Are Opening Paradise.

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The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening paradise.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 53

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