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18             Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	                        UPWARD 

 1	    I'VE watched in the azure the eagle's
  	        proud wing,
 3	    His soaring majestic, and feather-
  	        some fling — 
  	    Careening in liberty higher and higher — 
 6	    Like genius unfolding a quenchless desire. 

  	    Would a tear dim his eye, or pinion lose
  	        power
 9	    To gaze on the lark in her emerald bower? 
  	    When higher he soareth to compass his rest,
  	    What vision so bright as the dream in his
12	        breast! 

  	    God's eye is upon him. He penciled his
  	        path
15	    Whose omniscient notice the frail fledgling
  	        hath. 
  	    Though lightnings be lurid and earthquakes
18	        may shock,
  	    He r ides on the whirlwind or rests on the
  	        rock. 
 
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 1	    My course, like the eagle's, oh, still be it high,
  	    Celestial the breezes that waft o'er its sky! 
 3	    God's eye is upon me — I am not alone
  	    When onward and upward and heavenward
  	        borne. 

 6	      Written in early years.