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I	A
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Low and mournful be the strain	B
Haughty thought be far from me	C
Tones of penitence and pain	B
Moanings of the tropic sea	C
Low and tender in the cell	D
Where a captive sits in chains	E
Crooning ditties treasured well	D
From his Afric's torrid plains	E
Sole estate his sire bequeathed	F
Hapless sire to hapless son	G
Was the wailing song he breathed	H
And his chain when life was done	G
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What his fault or what his crime	I
Or what ill planet crossed his prime	I
Heart too soft and will too weak	J
To front the fate that crouches near	K
Dove beneath the vulture's beak	J
Will song dissuade the thirsty spear	K
Dragged from his mother's arms and breast	L
Displaced disfurnished here	M
His wistful toil to do his best	L
Chilled by a ribald jeer	K
Great men in the Senate sate	N
Sage and hero side by side	O
Building for their sons the State	N
Which they shall rule with pride	O
They forbore to break the chain	B
Which bound the dusky tribe	P
Checked by the owners' fierce disdain	B
Lured by 'Union' as the bribe	P
Destiny sat by and said	Q
'Pang for pang your seed shall pay	R
Hide in false peace your coward head	Q
I bring round the harvest day '	-
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II	A
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Freedom all winged expands	S
Nor perches in a narrow place	T
Her broad van seeks unplanted lands	S
She loves a poor and virtuous race	T
Clinging to a colder zone	U
Whose dark sky sheds the snow flake down	V
The snow flake is her banner's star	W
Her stripes the boreal streamers are	W
Long she loved the Northman well	D
Now the iron age is done	G
She will not refuse to dwell	D
With the offspring of the Sun	G
Foundling of the desert far	W
Where palms plume siroccos blaze	X
He roves unhurt the burning ways	X
In climates of the summer star	W
He has avenues to God	Y
Hid from men of Northern brain	B
Far beholding without cloud	Z
What these with slowest steps attain	B
If once the generous chief arrive	A2
To lead him willing to be led	Q
For freedom he will strike and strive	A2
And drain his heart till he be dead	Q
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III	A
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In an age of fops and toys	B2
Wanting wisdom void of right	C2
Who shall nerve heroic boys	B2
To hazard all in Freedom's fight	C2
Break sharply off their jolly games	D2
Forsake their comrades gay	R
And quit proud homes and youthful dames	D2
For famine toil and fray	R
Yet on the nimble air benign	E2
Speed nimbler messages	F2
That waft the breath of grace divine	E2
To hearts in sloth and ease	G2
So nigh is grandeur to our dust	H2
So near is God to man	I2
When Duty whispers low Thou must	H2
The youth replies I can	I2
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IV	A2
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O well for the fortunate soul	J2
Which Music's wings infold	H2
Stealing away the memory	C
Of sorrows new and old	H2
Yet happier he whose inward sight	H2
Stayed on his subtile thought	H2
Shuts his sense on toys of time	I
To vacant bosoms brought	H2
But best befriended of the God	H2
He who in evil times	K2
Warned by an inward voice	L2
Heeds not the darkness and the dread	H2
Biding by his rule and choice	L2
Feeling only the fiery thread	H2
Leading over heroic ground	H2
Walled with mortal terror round	H2
To the aim which him allures	L2
And the sweet heaven his deed secures	L2
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Stainless soldier on the walls	L2
Knowing this and knows no more	M2
Whoever fights whoever falls	L2
Justice conquers evermore Justice after as before	M2
And he who battles on her side	H2
God though he were ten times slain	B
Crowns him victor glorified	H2
Victor over death and pain	B
Forever but his erring foe	A2
Self assured that he prevails	L2
Looks from his victim lying low	A2
And sees aloft the red right arm	N2
Redress the eternal scales	L2
He the poor foe whom angels foil	O2
Blind with pride and fooled by hate	H2
Writhes within the dragon coil	O2
Reserved to a speechless fate	H2
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V	C
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Blooms the laurel which belongs	L2
To the valiant chief who fights	L2
I see the wreath I hear the songs	L2
Lauding the Eternal Rights	L2
Victors over daily wrongs	L2
Awful victors they misguide	H2
Whom they will destroy	P2
And their coming triumph hide	H2
In our downfall or our joy	P2
They reach no term they never sleep	Q2
In equal strength through space abide	H2
Though feigning dwarfs they crouch and creep	Q2
The strong they slay the swift outstride	H2
Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods	L2
And rankly on the castled steep	Q2
Speak it firmly these are gods	L2
All are ghosts beside	H2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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