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The Apology

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: classic

Think me not unkind and rude     That I walk alone in grove and glen;     I go to the god of the wood     To fetch his word to men.     Tax not my sloth that I     Fold my arms beside the brook;     Each cloud that floated in the sky     Writes a letter in my book.     Chide me not, laborious band,     For the idle flowers I brought;     Every aster in my hand     Goes home loaded with a thought.     There was never mystery     But 'tis figured in the flowers;     Was never secret history     But birds tell it in the bowers.     One harvest from thy field     Homeward brought the oxen strong;     A second crop thine acres yield,     Which I gather in a song.

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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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