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MOTTO TO 'THE POET' by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: A MOODY CHILD AND WILDLY WISE
Last Line: SAW MUSICAL ORDER, AND PAIRING RHYMES.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;

A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times,
Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.



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