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Lo! I have found the world is very fair.
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“Lo! I have found the world is very fair.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poems of Optimism
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1913
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Meaning of “Lo! I have found the world is very…”

The declaration concludes a deliberate search for beauty by affirming that close attention has revealed much in the world worth valuing.

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Poems of Optimism, “Beauty”; Project Gutenberg #7421. The surrounding poem is explicitly religious and aesthetic, repeatedly connecting beauty with God, stars, sunsets and ordinary perception.

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Poems of Optimism, “Beauty”; Project Gutenberg #7421. The surrounding stanza describes autumn forests as a gallery of vivid colors; the line is poetic and devotional observation, not a scientific claim about aesthetic value.

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“But, whichever way I go, I am glad I came.”

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“I'd use to-day that cannot last, Be glad to-day and sing.”

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Awareness that another spring is not guaranteed turns attention toward using the present day rather than postponing every form of gladness.

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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”

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Seasonal change does not exhaust nature’s capacity for wonder; attention can discover beauty in austerity as readily as in abundance.

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