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Poem August 24, 1981 Issue

A high goal

THEODORE L. CLAPP

O Father, let me pursue excellence
So excellence be crowned, not me.
Mastery mastered in love,
And shared by all.

Then, humbly rich toward God,
Losing self and finding Life,
I find me.

THEODORE L. CLAPP

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