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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) (continued)
 
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    Good bye, proud world! I’m going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine. 1 
          Good Bye.
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    For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
          Good Bye.
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            If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 2 
          The Rhodora.
6244
    Things are in the saddle,
  And ride mankind. 3 
          Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.
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    Olympian bards who sung
  Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
  And always keep us so.
          Ode to Beauty.
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    Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
          Give all to Love.
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    Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.
          Blight.
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    The silent organ loudest chants
  The master’s requiem.
          Dirge.
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    By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world. 4 
          Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.
 
Note 1.
See Byron, page 544. [back]
Note 2.
See Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh, Book I:
        The beautiful seems right,
  By force of beauty. [back]
Note 3.
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.—Rumbold (when on the scaffold). [back]
Note 4.
No war or battle sound
Was heard the world around.
Milton: Hymn of Christ’s Nativity, line 31. [back]