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FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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First Line: THE GODS WALK IN THE BREATH OF THE WOODS
Last Line: WHOM KINGS & LORDS OBEY.
The gods walk in the breath of the woods
They walk by the sounding pine,
And fill the long reach of the old seashore
With colloquy divine
And the poet who overhears
Each random word they say
Is the prophet without peers
Whom kings & lords obey.



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