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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

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II MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES

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III ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES

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IV QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS

GARDENER

HERI, CRAS, HODIE

NATURE IN LEASTS

ΑΔΑΚΡΥΝ ΝΕΜΟΝΤΑΙ ΑΙΩΝΑ

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VI POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD 1823–1834

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GARDENER

True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet,
Expound the Vedas of the violet,
Or, hid in vines, peeping through many a loop,
See the plum redden, and the beurré stoop.