Poems - Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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page 265 of 409 (64%)
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Alike thy memory embalms
That orange-grove, that isle of palms, And these loved banks, whose oak-bough bold Root in the blood of heroes old. * * * * * III ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES * * * * * EXPERIENCE The lords of life, the lords of life,-- I saw them pass In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim,-- Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game |
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