Arts & Sciences
The Exile
Arts & Sciences
The heavy blue chain
Of the boundless main
Didst thou, just man, endure.
I have an arrow that will find its mark,
A mastiff that will bite without a hark.
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POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD
1823-1834
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Cite this poem
MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Exile.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/186/.
Chicago
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Exile.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/186/.
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