Time & Brevity
Nature (2)
Time & Brevity
Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold,
And trains us on to slight the new, as if it were the old:
But blest is he, who, playing deep, yet haply asks not why,
Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Cite this poem
MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nature (2).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/129/.
Chicago
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nature (2).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/129/.
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