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The Flute

Ralph Waldo Emerson

FROM HILALI

Hark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains,
Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh;
Saying, Sweetheart! the old mystery remains,--
If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I?

(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/29/2019


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