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limits. - 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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    • Who knows this or that?
    • Hark in the wall to the rat:
    • Since the world was, he has gnawed;
    • Of his wisdom, of his fraud
    • What dost thou know?
    • In the wretched little beast
    • Is life and heart,
    • Child and parent,
    • Not without relation
    • To fruitful field and sun and moon.
    • What art thou? His wicked eye
    • Is cruel to thy cruelty.