I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comp… - Philip James Bailey

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I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey (22 April 1816 – 6 September 1902) was an English poet, most famous as the author of Festus.

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Alternative Names: P. J. Bailey

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