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<Author>Emerson, Ralph Waldo</Author>
<Title>Essays: Second Series</Title>
<Edition>Essays and Lectures. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1844</Date>
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<l> THE POET </l>
<l> ------ </l>
<l> A moody child and wildly wise </l>
<l> Pursued the game with joyful eyes, </l>
<l> Which chose, like meteors, their way, </l>
<l> And rived the dark with private ray: </l>
<l> They overleapt the horizon's edge, </l>
<l> Searched with Apollo's privilege; </l>
<l> Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, </l>
<l> Saw the dance of nature forward far; </l>
<l> Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, </l>
<l> Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. </l>
</loc><loc><locdoc>EmeEngl446</locdoc><milestone n=446>
<l> Olympian bards who sung </l>
<l> Divine ideas below, </l>
<l> Which always find us young, </l>
<l> And always k . . .
