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Title: Nature
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Release Date: July 17, 2009 [EBook #29433]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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NATURE
BY
R. W. EMERSON
A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
NEW EDITION
BOSTON & CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY M DCCC XLIX.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849 By JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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