The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 27
... wine nor brains perpetual pump . Men and gods are too extense ; Could you slacken and condense ? Your rank overgrowths reduce Till your kinds abound with juice ? ( Earth , crowded , cries , Too many men ! ' My counsel is , kill nine in ...
... wine nor brains perpetual pump . Men and gods are too extense ; Could you slacken and condense ? Your rank overgrowths reduce Till your kinds abound with juice ? ( Earth , crowded , cries , Too many men ! ' My counsel is , kill nine in ...
Page 28
... wine , Tobacco - leaf , or poppy , or rose ; From the earth - poles to the Line , All between that works or grows , Every thing is kín of mine . Give me agates for my meat ; Give me cantharids to eat ; From air and ocean bring me foods ...
... wine , Tobacco - leaf , or poppy , or rose ; From the earth - poles to the Line , All between that works or grows , Every thing is kín of mine . Give me agates for my meat ; Give me cantharids to eat ; From air and ocean bring me foods ...
Page 29
... me ! ' I TO J. W. SET not thy foot on graves ; Hear what wine and roses say ; The mountain chase , the summer waves , The crowded town , thy feet may well delay . Set not thy foot on graves ; Nor seek to TO J. W. 29 TO J W.
... me ! ' I TO J. W. SET not thy foot on graves ; Hear what wine and roses say ; The mountain chase , the summer waves , The crowded town , thy feet may well delay . Set not thy foot on graves ; Nor seek to TO J. W. 29 TO J W.
Page 30
... wine , and rings , His sheet of lead , And trophies buried : Go , get them where he earned them when alive ; As resolutely dig or dive . Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark , Quarrel or reprimand : ' T will soon be ...
... wine , and rings , His sheet of lead , And trophies buried : Go , get them where he earned them when alive ; As resolutely dig or dive . Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark , Quarrel or reprimand : ' T will soon be ...
Page 34
... wine into his well . He had so sped his wise affairs That he caught Nature in his snares . Early or late , the falling rain Arrived in time to swell his grain ; Stream could not so perversely wind But corn of Guy's was there to grind ...
... wine into his well . He had so sped his wise affairs That he caught Nature in his snares . Early or late , the falling rain Arrived in time to swell his grain ; Stream could not so perversely wind But corn of Guy's was there to grind ...
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