Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compensation

Why should I keep holiday
  When other men have none?
Why but because, when these are gay,
  I sit and mourn alone?

And why, when mirth unseals all tongues,
  Should mine alone be dumb?
Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
  And now their hour is come.

1. Monadnoc
2. Astraea
3. The Park
4. Woodnotes II
5. Fable

Edgar Guest Compensation ("I'd like to think when life is done")

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