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The Exile

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

(after Taliessin)

THE HEAVY blue chain
Of the boundless main
Didst thou, just man, endure.

IHAVE an arrow that will find its mark,
A mastiff that will bite without a bark.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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