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days. - 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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days.

    • Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
    • Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
    • And marching single in an endless file,
    • Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
    • To each they offer gifts after his will,
    • Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
    • I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
    • Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
    • Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
    • Turned and departed silent I, too late,
    • Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.