Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOTTO TO 'NATURE', by RALPH WALDO EMERSON



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First Line: The rounded world is fair to see, / nine times folded in mystery
Last Line: And hints the future which it owes.
Subject(s): Nature


The rounded world is fair to see,
Nine times folded in mystery:
Though baffled seers cannot impart
The secret of its laboring heart,
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
Spirit that lurks each form within
Beckons to spirit of its kin;
Self-kindled every atom glows,
And hints the future which it owes.





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