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LOVE (2) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE / ASKS NOUGHT HIS BROTHER CANNOT GIVE
Last Line: HIMSELF & HIS LOVE INTERVENE.
Subject(s): LOVE;
-- -- Love
Asks nought his brother cannot give
Asks nothing but does all receive
Love calls not to his aid events
He to his wants can well suffice
Asks not of others soft consents
Nor kind Occasion without eyes
Nor plots to ope or bolt a gate
Nor heeds Condition's iron walls
Where he goes, goes before him Fate;
Whom he uniteth God instals;
Instant & perfect his access
To the dear object of his thought,
Though foes & lands & seas between
Himself & his love intervene.



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