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George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.

Approaching God

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888)

WHEN thou approachest to the One,

Self from thyself thou first must free,

Thy cloak duplicity cast clean aside,

And in thy Being’s being be.