Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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New York; Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company

c.1899

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"Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5599.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

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"SURSUM CORDA."

 Seek not the Spirit, if it hide, Inexorable to thy zeal: Baby, do not whine and chide; Art thou not also real? Why should'st thou stoop to poor excuse? Turn on the Accuser roundly; say, "Here am I, here will I remain Forever to myself soothfast, Go thou, sweet Heaven, or, at thy pleasure stay."— Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast, For it only can absolutely deal.