The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poems [Vol. 9]

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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: Poems [Vol. 9]." In the digital collection The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/4957107.0009.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.

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GRACE

HOW much, preventing God, how much I owe
To the defences thou hast round me set;
Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,—
These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
I dare not peep over this parapet
To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,
The depths of sin to which I had descended,
Had not these me against myself defended.2Open page