Yet raising, sharpening, and refining each:

Who stands amid the ever-varying world

The burden or the glory of the Earth—

He chief perceives the change: his being notes

The gradual renovation, and defines

Each movement of its progress on his mind.

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Here now the human being stands, adorning

This loveliest Earth with taintless body and mind.

Blest from his birth with all bland impulses,