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compensation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems) [1909]

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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 12 vols. Fireside Edition (Boston and New York, 1909).

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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.