Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson [electronic text]

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1904

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"Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD1982.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.

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THE INFORMING SPIRIT

I

 THERE iS no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.

II

 I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Cæsar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.