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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Give all to Love
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Ralph Waldo Emerson – Give all to Love
Cling with life to the man
But when the surprise
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across your bosom young
Of a joy apart from Thee
Free be you, fancy free
Nor he detain your vesture’s hem
Nor the palest rose he flung
You from his summer diadem
Thou who loved him as thyself
As a self of purer clay
Though his parting dims the day
Stealing grace from all alive
Heartily know
When half-gods go
The gods arrive