I Love all Beauteous Things

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I love all beauteous things,
 I seek and adore them;
God hath no better praise,
And man in his hasty days
 Is honoured for them.

I too will something make
 And joy in the making;
Altho’ to-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
 Remembered on waking.

© John Hall Wheelock