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Rh And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,

Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honored, self-secure,

Didst tread on earth unguessed at.—Better so!

All pains the immortal spirit must endure,

All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,

Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS.

WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS.

, Instincts, Principles, and Powers,

Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control,—

So men, unravelling God's harmonious whole,

Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours.