The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series [Vol. 2]

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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series [Vol. 2]
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Boston ; New York :: Houghton, Mifflin,
[1903-1904].
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"The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series [Vol. 2]." In the digital collection The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/4957107.0002.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.

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Page 263, note 1. These lines were evidently quoted from memory from "A Dirge," one of Tennyson's early poems. The burden, "Let them rave," runs through all the verses. The following one comes as near the lines as quoted as any of them:—

Thou wilt not turn upon thy bed;Chaunteth not the brooding beeSweeter tones than calumny?Let them rave.Thou wilt never raise thine headFrom the green that folds thy grave—Let them rave.

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