Poems - Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
page 290 of 409 (70%)
page 290 of 409 (70%)
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The bias of the will betray.
LOVE Love on his errand bound to go Can swim the flood and wade through snow, Where way is none, 't will creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,-- ''T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES Well and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond; To the altar's foot thy fellow seek,-- The Furies wait beyond. |
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