Poems - Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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NATURE Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold, And trains us on to slight the new, as if it were the old: But blest is he, who, playing deep, yet haply asks not why, Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. FATE Her planted eye to-day controls, Is in the morrow most at home, And sternly calls to being souls That curse her when they come. HOROSCOPE Ere he was born, the stars of fate Plotted to make him rich and great: When from the womb the babe was loosed, The gate of gifts behind him closed. POWER |
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