UNITY
by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
- PACE is
ample, east and west,
- But two cannot go abreast,
- Cannot travel in it two:
- Yonder masterful cuckoo
- Crowds every egg out of the nest,
- Quick or dead, except its own;
- A spell is laid on sod and stone,
- Night and Day were tampered with,
- Every quality and pith
- Surcharged and sultry with a power
- That works its will on age and hour.
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