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Prudence

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

Theme no poet gladly sung,
Fair to old and foul to young;
Scorn not thou the love of parts,
And the articles of arts.
Grandeur of the perfect sphere
Thanks the atoms that cohere.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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