Living
Borrowing
Living
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!
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MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Borrowing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/128/.
Chicago
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Borrowing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/128/.
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