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Night In June

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I left my dreary page and sallied forth,     Received the fair inscriptions of the night;     The moon was making amber of the world,     Glittered with silver every cottage pane,     The trees were rich, yet ominous with gloom.     The meadows broad     From ferns and grapes and from the folded flowers     Sent a nocturnal fragrance; harlot flies     Flashed their small fires in air, or held their court     In fairy groves of herds-grass.     He lives not who can refuse me;     All my force saith, Come and use me:     A gleam of sun, a summer rain,     And all the zone is green again.     Seems, though the soft sheen all enchants,     Cheers the rough crag and mournful dell,     As if on such stern forms and haunts     A wintry storm more fitly fell.     Put in, drive home the sightless wedges     And split to flakes the crystal ledges.

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement. His poems—including "Brahma," "The Rhodora," and "Concord Hymn"—explore nature, self-reliance, and the oversoul.

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