Time & Brevity

Nature (2)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882

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.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nature (2).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/129/.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nature (2).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/129/.

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