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Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Sursum Corda


Seek not the spirit, if it hide
Inexorable to thy zeal:
Trembler, do not whine and chide:
Art thou not also real?
Stoop not then to poor excuse;
Turn on the accuser roundly; say,
'Here am I, here will I abide
Forever to myself soothfast;
Go thou, sweet Heaven, or at thy pleasure stay!'
Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast,
For only it can absolutely deal.



Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ralph Waldo Emerson's other poems:
  1. To Ellen at the South
  2. The Park
  3. Woodnotes I
  4. Monadnoc
  5. Astraea


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

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