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Letters

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward, well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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