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1803–1882

PRUDENCE

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theme no poet gladly sung, Fair to old and foul to young; Scorn not thou the love of parts, And the articles of arts.

Grandeur of the perfect sphere Thanks the atoms that cohere.

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