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Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44 Poet

TO clothe the fiery thought

In simple words succeeds,

For still the craft of genius is

To mask a king in weeds.