Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]
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Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson / [by Ralph Waldo Emerson] ; with an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole [electronic text]
Author
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 14, 2024.
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HOLIDAYS.
From fall to spring the russet acorn,Fruit beloved of maid and boy,Lent itself beneath the forestTo be the children's toy.
Pluck it now; in vain: thou canst not,Its root has pierced yon shady mound,Toy no longer, it has duties;It is anchored in the ground.
Year by year the rose-lipped maiden,Play-fellow of young and old,Was frolic sunshine, dear to all men,More dear to one than mines of gold.
Whither went the lovely hoyden?—Disappeared in blessed wife,Servant to a wooden cradle,Living in a baby's life.
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Still thou playest;— short vacationFate grants each to stand aside;Now must thou be man and artist;'Tis the turning of the tide.
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