 Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. Do your thing & I shall know you. JULY* 'Twas one of the charmed days When the Genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm: Or south... | |
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...watch he keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth,— his hall the azure dome ;...no The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot How ; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear ; Or east, it smells like a... | |
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