Religion
Spiritual Laws
Religion
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.
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MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Spiritual Laws.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/100/.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Spiritual Laws.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/100/.
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