The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies

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Page 595 - note I, The brave retraction by Thomas Taylor of the hostile ridicule which Punch had poured on Lincoln in earlier days contained these verses: — " Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for
Page 211 - OF all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Page 322 - Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; . . . Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
Page 390 - GOD said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west
Page 429 - 1859 *« His was the music to whose tone The common pulse of man keeps time In cot or castle's mirth or moan, In cold or sunny clime. Praise to the bard! his words are driven, Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown, Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven, The birds of fame have flown.
Page 27 - 1835 BULKELEY, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood. Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm Saying, ' 'Tis mine, my children's and my name's.* Where are these men ? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their
Page 308 - TO-DAY unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is
Page 595 - Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; — To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. " The whole poem is included in Mr. Emerson's collection Parnassus. Page 337, note I. This thought is rendered more fully in the poem "Spiritual Laws,
Page 574 - sending back of Onesimus by Paul was a precedent precious in the eyes of pro-slavery preachers, North and South, in those days, ignoring, however, Paul's message, " Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord. If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Page 280 - HERE comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.— There 's a background of God to each hard-working feature; Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest: There he stands, looking more like a ploughman than

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