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" Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear,... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 312
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef, and sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.'...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...legacy of ebbing veins, Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.' THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,...
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Poems, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...legacy of ebbing veins, I Amid the Muses, left thee deal and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, '< I trim myself...the cruise, is near, } And every wave is charmed." THE NUN'S ASPIRATION. THE yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...our mod'rate ills, And sympathize with others suffering more. 2729 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 383. As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." 2730 Emerson: Terminus. Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers ; Lightsome at commencement,...
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Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...legacy of ebbing veins, Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...eve obeyed at prime : ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Eight onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.'...
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Complete Works, Volume 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...legacy of ebbing veins, Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to...rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prune: « Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise,...
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Proceedings at a banquet given by his friends to the hon. Marshall Pinckney ...

Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1883 - 130 pages
...evening so well befitting its close, we have the right to address to him the words of Emerson : — Lowly faithful, banish fear; Right onward drive, unharmed....worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed. Very truly yours, FW BIRD. CHB BRECK, Esq. Letter of the Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury. BOSTON, Sept....
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The Life of Gilbert Haven: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

George Prentice - 1883 - 558 pages
...concluding lines, and read them aloud : " As the bird trims him to the gale, I trim myself to the storms of time ; I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime, Lowly. faith ful, banish fear. Right onward drive unharmed, The port well worth the cruise is near, And every...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...nerveless reins, — Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb. " As the bird trims her to the gale I trim myself to...drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is lear, And every wave is charmed.'" CHAPTER XL 1868-1873. 2E& 65-70. Lectures on the Natural History...
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Lobb's theological quarterly (with which is incorporated ..., Volume 1

1884 - 668 pages
...his epitaph, nothing higher or wiser is uttered : — " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim me to the storm of time ; I man the rudder, reef the...; Lowly faithful, banish fear; Right onward drive unharm'd ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed." These words hold good,...
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