Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHARACTER; EPIGRAM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON



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First Line: The sun set, but set not his hope
Last Line: As hid all measure of the feat.


THE sun set, but set not his hope:
Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:
Fixed on the enormous galaxy,
Deeper and older seemed his eye;
And matched his sufferance sublime
The taciturnity of time.
He spoke, and words more soft than rain
Brought the Age of Gold again:
His action won such reverence sweet
As hid all measure of the feat.





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