Sursum Corda

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Title:     Sursum Corda
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

Seek not the spirit, if it hide
Inexorable to thy zeal:
Trembler, do not whine and chide:
Art thou not also real?
Stoop not then to poor excuse;
Turn on the accuser roundly; say,
'Here am I, here will I abide
Forever to myself soothfast;
Go thou, sweet Heaven, or at thy pleasure stay!'
Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast,
For only it can absolutely deal.

[The end]
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Sursum Corda

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