Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPIRITUAL LAWS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON


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First Line: The living heaven thy prayers respect
Last Line: The silver seat of innocence.


The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's rejected hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze, and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.





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