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grace. - 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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    • How much, preventing God, how much I owe
    • To the defences thou hast round me set;
    • Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,—
    • These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
    • I dare not peep over this parapet
    • To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,
    • The depths of sin to which I had descended,
    • Had not these me against myself defended.