The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]

II. SOCIAL AIMS

WHEN the old world is sterile And the ages are effete, He will from wrecks and sediment The fairer world complete. He forbids to despair; His cheeks mantle with mirth; And the unimagined good of men Is yeaning at the birth.

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Title: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Publication: Boston ; New York :: Houghton, Mifflin,; [1903-1904].

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