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1803–1882

CULTURE

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional,

Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye:

But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fuse the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.

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