The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 25
... live and learn , Seeing Nature go astern . Things deteriorate in kind ; Lemons run to leaves and rind ; Meagre crop of figs and limes ; Shorter days and harder times . Flowering April cools and dies In the insufficient skies . Imps , at ...
... live and learn , Seeing Nature go astern . Things deteriorate in kind ; Lemons run to leaves and rind ; Meagre crop of figs and limes ; Shorter days and harder times . Flowering April cools and dies In the insufficient skies . Imps , at ...
Page 27
... , kill nine in ten , And bestow the shares of all On the remnant decimal . Add their nine lives to this cat ; Stuff their nine brains in one hat ; Make his frame and forces square With the labors he ALPHONSO OF CASTILE 27.
... , kill nine in ten , And bestow the shares of all On the remnant decimal . Add their nine lives to this cat ; Stuff their nine brains in one hat ; Make his frame and forces square With the labors he ALPHONSO OF CASTILE 27.
Page 49
... live by me : The rough and bearded forester Is better than the lord ; God fills the scrip and canister , Sin piles the loaded board . The lord is the peasant that was , The peasant the lord that shall be ; The lord is hay , the peasant ...
... live by me : The rough and bearded forester Is better than the lord ; God fills the scrip and canister , Sin piles the loaded board . The lord is the peasant that was , The peasant the lord that shall be ; The lord is hay , the peasant ...
Page 55
... lives no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth ; And to thine eye the vast skies fall , Dire and satirical , On clucking hens and prating fools , On thieves , on drudges and on dolls . And thou shalt say to the Most High ...
... lives no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth ; And to thine eye the vast skies fall , Dire and satirical , On clucking hens and prating fools , On thieves , on drudges and on dolls . And thou shalt say to the Most High ...
Page 72
... live he is in fear . Then , at last , I let him down Once more into his dapper town , To chatter , frightened , to his clan And forget me if he can . ' As in the old poetic fame The gods are blind and lame , And the simular despite ...
... live he is in fear . Then , at last , I let him down Once more into his dapper town , To chatter , frightened , to his clan And forget me if he can . ' As in the old poetic fame The gods are blind and lame , And the simular despite ...
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