The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9Printed at the Riverside Press, 1904 |
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Page 14
... generation , Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight.2 Straightway , a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind , And their lips the secret kept , If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But 14 URIEL.
... generation , Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight.2 Straightway , a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind , And their lips the secret kept , If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But 14 URIEL.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But now and then , truth - speaking things Shamed the angels ' veiling wings ; And , shrilling from the solar course , Or from fruit of chemic force ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. If in ashes the fire - seed slept . But now and then , truth - speaking things Shamed the angels ' veiling wings ; And , shrilling from the solar course , Or from fruit of chemic force ...
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... fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight ...
... fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire , What boots it ? What the soldier's mail , Unless he conquer and prevail ? What all the goods thy pride which lift , If thou pine for another's gift ? Alas ! that one is born in blight ...
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... fire warm me And dress up Nature in your favor.2 One thing is forever good ; That one thing is Success , - Dear to the Eumenides , And to all the heavenly brood . Who bides at home , nor looks abroad , Carries the eagles , and masters ...
... fire warm me And dress up Nature in your favor.2 One thing is forever good ; That one thing is Success , - Dear to the Eumenides , And to all the heavenly brood . Who bides at home , nor looks abroad , Carries the eagles , and masters ...
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... fires , He is the essence that inquires . He is the axis of the star ; He is the sparkle of the spar ; He is the heart of every creature ; He is the meaning of each feature ; And his mind is the sky . Than all it holds more deep , more ...
... fires , He is the essence that inquires . He is the axis of the star ; He is the sparkle of the spar ; He is the heart of every creature ; He is the meaning of each feature ; And his mind is the sky . Than all it holds more deep , more ...
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