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tienne De La Boce

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I serve you not, if you I follow,     Shadowlike, o'er hill and hollow;     And bend my fancy to your leading,     All too nimble for my treading.     When the pilgrimage is done,     And we've the landscape overrun,     I am bitter, vacant, thwarted,     And your heart is unsupported.     Vainly valiant, you have missed     The manhood that should yours resist,--     Its complement; but if I could,     In severe or cordial mood,     Lead you rightly to my altar,     Where the wisest Muses falter,     And worship that world-warming spark     Which dazzles me in midnight dark,     Equalizing small and large,     While the soul it doth surcharge,     Till the poor is wealthy grown,     And the hermit never alone,--     The traveller and the road seem one     With the errand to be done,--     That were a man's and lover's part,     That were Freedom's whitest chart.

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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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