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Insight

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

Power that by obedience grows,
Knowledge which its source not knows,
Wave which severs whom it bears
From the things which he compares,
Adding wings through things to range,
To his own blood harsh and strange.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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