Essays, Second Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

The rounded world is fair to see,
Nine times folded in mystery:
Though baffled seers cannot impart
The secret of its laboring heart,
Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
Spirit that lurks each form within
Beckons to spirit of its kin;
Self-kindled every atom glows,
And hints the future which it owes.

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The Poet  •  I. The Poet  •  Experience  •  II. Experience  •  Character  •  III. Character  •  Manners  •  IV. Manners  •  Gifts  •  V. Gifts  •  Nature  •  VI. Nature  •  Politics  •  VII. Politics  •  Nominalist and Realist  •  VIII. Nominalist and Realist  •  New England Reformers  •  New England Reformers

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