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1803–1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should I keep holiday When other men have none? Why but because, when these are gay, I sit and mourn alone?

And why, when mirth unseals all tongues, Should mine alone be dumb? Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, And now their hour is come.

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