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spiritual laws. - 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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spiritual laws.

    • The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
    • House at once and architect,
    • Quarrying man's rejected hours,
    • Builds therewith eternal towers;
    • Sole and self-commanded works,
    • Fears not undermining days,
    • Grows by decays,
    • And, by the famous might that lurks
    • In reaction and recoil,
    • Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
    • Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
    • The silver seat of Innocence.