O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! … - Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving. . . Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

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Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.

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