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A mountain tree if it would see
The far horizons and the stars,
May never know a sheltered place
Nor grow symmetrical in grace.
Such trees must battle doggedly
the blasts, and bear the scars.
–Loyal Marion Thompson
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Photo credit: Anna Bolton
See Wade E. Taylor’s devotion on this poem: “Vision”
Christ-Centered Christianity 