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the waterfall. - 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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the waterfall.

    • A patch of meadow upland
    • Reached by a mile of road,
    • Soothed by the voice of waters,
    • With birds and flowers bestowed.
    • Hither I come for strength
    • Which well it can supply,
    • For Love draws might from terrene force
    • And potencies of sky.
    • The tremulous battery Earth
    • Responds to the touch of man;
    • It thrills to the antipodes,
    • From Boston to Japan.