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politics. - 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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politics.

    • Gold and iron are good
    • To buy iron and gold;
    • All earth's fleece and food
    • For their like are sold.
    • Boded Merlin wise,
    • Proved Napoleon great,
    • Nor kind nor coinage buys
    • Aught above its rate.
    • Fear, Craft and Avarice
    • Cannot rear a State.
    • Out of dust to build
    • What is more than dust,—
    • Walls Amphion piled
    • Phoæbus stablish must.
    • When the Muses nine
    • With the Virtues meet,
    • Find to their design
    • An Atlantic seat,
    • By green orchard boughs
    • Fended from the heat,
    • Where the statesman ploughs
    • Furrow for the wheat,—
    • When the Church is social worth,
    • When the state-house is the hearth,
    • Then the perfect State is come,
    • The republican at home.