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Alphonso of Castile
Astræ
Bacchus
Berrying
Blight
Celestial Love
Compensation
Concord Hymn
Dæmonic Love
Days
Dirge
Fate
Ode To Beauty
Song Of Nature
Sphynx
The Amulet
The Apology
The Bell
The Days Ration
The Problem
The Rhodora
The Snow-Storm
The World-Soul
To-day
Compensation of Compensation - by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Why should I keep holiday,
When other men have none?
Why but because when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.

And why when mirth unseals all tongues
Should mine alone be dumb?
Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come.

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