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<Author>Emerson, Ralph Waldo</Author>
<Title>The Conduct of Life</Title>
<Edition>Essays and Lectures. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1860</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>EmeCond941</locdoc><milestone n=941>
<div0 type=chapter n=1>
<p>FATE
<l>Delicate omens traced in air</l>
<l>To the lone bard true witness bare;</l>
<l>Birds with auguries on their wings</l>
<l>Chanted undeceiving things</l>
<l>Him to beckon, him to warn;</l>
<l>Well might then the poet scorn</l>
<l>To learn of scribe or courier</l>
<l>Hints writ in vaster character;</l>
<l>And on his mind, at dawn of day,</l>
<l>Soft shadows of the evening lay.</l>
<l>For the prevision is allied</l>
<l>Unto the thing so signified;</l>
<l>Or say, the foresight that awaits</l>
<l>Is the same Genius that creates.</l>
</loc><loc><locdoc>EmeCond943</locdoc><milestone n=943>
<l> <i>Fate</i></l>
<p>It chanced during one winter, a few years . . .
