 Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 96by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
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...(Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1964), 292, 280. "The Rhodora, " six lines of which — ending, "if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" — are still in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Emerson, a biographer observes, was "searching tirelessly... | |
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