<h2 id="id00356" style="margin-top: 4em">COMMON-WEALTH</h2>
<p id="id00357">Give thanks, my soul, for the things that are free!<br/>
The blue of the sky, the shade of a tree,<br/>
And the unowned leagues of the shining sea.<br/></p>
<p id="id00358">Be grateful, my heart, for everyman's gold;<br/>
By road-way and river and hill unfold<br/>
Sun-coloured blossoms that never are sold.<br/></p>
<p id="id00359">For the little joys sometimes say a grace;<br/>
The scent of a rose, the frost's fairy lace,<br/>
Or the sound of the rain in a quiet place.<br/></p>
<p id="id00360">Be glad of what cannot be bought or beguiled;<br/>
The trust of the tameless, the fearless, the wild,<br/>
The song of a bird and the faith of a child.<br/></p>
<p id="id00361">For prairie and mountain, windswept and high,<br/>
For betiding beauty of earth and sky—<br/>
Say a benediction e'er you pass by.<br/></p>
<p id="id00362">Give thanks, my soul, for the things that are free!<br/>
The joy of life and the spring's ecstasy,<br/>
The dreams that have been and the dreams that will be.<br/></p>
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