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holidays. - 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).

Part of: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 12 vols. (Fireside Edition).

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holidays.

    • From fall to spring, the russet acorn,
    • Fruit beloved of maid and boy,
    • Lent itself beneath the forest,
    • To be the children's toy.
    • Pluck it now! In vain,—thou canst not;
    • Its root has pierced yon shady mound;
    • Toy no longer—it has duties;
    • It is anchored in the ground.
    • Year by year the rose-lipped maiden,
    • Playfellow of young and old,
    • Was frolic sunshine, dear to all men,
    • More dear to one than mines of gold.
    • Whither went the lovely hoyden?
    • Disappeared in blessed wife;
    • Servant to a wooden cradle,
    • Living in a baby's life.
    • Still thon playest;—short vacation
    • Fate grants each to stand aside;
    • Now must thou be man and
    • 'T is the turning of the tide.