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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882
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Concord Hymn
SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, JULY 4, 1837 / By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Cosmos
Who saw the hid beginnings / When Chaos and Order strove, / Or who can date the morning.
Culture
Can rules or tutors educate / The semigod whom we await? / He must be musical,
Cupido
The solid, solid universe / Is pervious to Love; / With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Day By Day Returns
Day by day returns / The everlasting sun, / Replenishing material urns
Days
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, / Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, / And marching single in an endless file,
Each And All
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown / Of thee from the hill-top looking down; / The heifer that lows in the upland farm,
Earth-Song
'Mine and yours; / Mine, not yours. / Earth endures;
Étienne De La Boéce
I serve you not, if you I follow, / Shadowlike, o'er hill and hollow; / And bend my fancy to your leading,
Fable
The mountain and the squirrel / Had a quarrel, / And the former called the latter 'Little Prig;
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